Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj
18-9-1933
The objects of each sense organ are different. All ten of them pull you in ten directions. Yama, the God of Death, rides upon the "Buffalo of Ignorance" and attacks you. Ignorance is what carries one to the realm of death. The enticement of the sense and being ensnared by pleasure, is nothing but attachment to the body. Everything happens if the grand scheme of things, but the individual says "I have done everything." Although he is the Self, he says that he is the body, and bears the burden of merits and sins. This is the disease of body identification called the ego. It's like the dog that is walking below a moving cart and says that he is the one who is driving the cart. Similarly, the individual takes up false pride and claims to of everything. He takes no rest at any time. It is like he is having an uncontrollable seizure of body identification.
There was a law in the town of blind people that said if anybody comes who can see with his eyes, they would take out his eyeballs. One must escape from there with sufficient cunning. Illusion knows that if anybody realizes the Self she would be defamed, so she makes efforts in the opposite direction of Knowledge. Because you are attached to the body and sense pleasures, the cycle of birth and death is continuous. It is only when you see that the pleasure is sorrow that you come to real happiness. Action done with expectation of fruit is very detrimental. The desire of fruits, or results, is what compels the Self that is beyond birth, to take birth. Therefore, do not harbor desire for any results. Maya harasses the jiva by imposing upon him the mirage of body identification, but alas, the individual does not get fed up. The jiva takes birth in various bodies and suffers all of his own accord. The jiva that is blindfolding the eyes of the Self-hood is wandering all over.
There was a law in the town of blind people that said if anybody comes who can see with his eyes, they would take out his eyeballs. One must escape from there with sufficient cunning. Illusion knows that if anybody realizes the Self she would be defamed, so she makes efforts in the opposite direction of Knowledge. Because you are attached to the body and sense pleasures, the cycle of birth and death is continuous. It is only when you see that the pleasure is sorrow that you come to real happiness. Action done with expectation of fruit is very detrimental. The desire of fruits, or results, is what compels the Self that is beyond birth, to take birth. Therefore, do not harbor desire for any results. Maya harasses the jiva by imposing upon him the mirage of body identification, but alas, the individual does not get fed up. The jiva takes birth in various bodies and suffers all of his own accord. The jiva that is blindfolding the eyes of the Self-hood is wandering all over.
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