Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

Author(s): Anathdas Sadhu, Govinddas Sadhu
Publisher: Heeralal Dhole

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VICHAR MALA.
for you and productive of happiness; and that happiness can only follow from the gratification of the desired úbject (Brahma), as also from the destruction of objects that are hurtful to you, as a boy cachanted with a poisoned snake felt himself happy, when he got away from it through the force of virtuous deeds [done in a prior state of existence].
Who is immersed iu the grief of an earthly life, And regards the world in its true light-faulty. Verily, verily, I repeat uuto you the truth The perception of happiness there is but like a dream.
Here we have a reason why the world is to be abandoned, and all connection broken with it; because there is only misery in them, and the perception of fell.ity in wife, children and the rest is as unreal as objects scen in a dream.
To confirm it in the mind of his hearer, the professor now compares the world to a sea.
The world is a sea, attachment for it is the water, Passions and desires are the aquatic animals; Whirlpools are incessantly turuing round Made up of happiness and misery'in infinite succes
sion; Heart is the steamship; thirst, wind strong, And one whose ship is tossing about In that sea, what help can be
Get by holding to the wird ?
A person whose heart is floating in the sea of this world can derive no benefit from meditating on the qualities of kaowledge; he pays no heed to it, nor does he struggle to find out what his Self is, but is ever tossed about by the strong winds of passion and desire and subjected to repeated re-birth, just as in a tempest, a ship can derive no help from the wind; it guides her not to port, nor allows her escaping either a partial or total wreck.