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Prabuddha Instructs How to Cross Maya
King Nimi asked, “O great sage! Please tell me, how can one whose mind is not controlled, and who is of dull understanding, easily cross over this Maya?”
The sage replied: “If you want to free yourself from misery and attain happiness, see that the man who leads a sensual life fails to escape from misery and to attain the desired good. One cannot get real lasting happiness from wealth. There is great difficulty in its acquisition. It brings always troubles, afflictions and miseries. There is no happiness in the possession of houses, children, friends and relatives and cattle which are all transient.
“Every man in this world devotes his energies for obtaining pleasure and avoiding pain. But in his endeavour, he always finds pain and toil while the much longed for pleasure is evanescent or illusory. He struggles hard to possess objects for himself, his wife and children; with the objects, his toils and responsibilities increase while the pleasure is only temporary or evanescent.
“The region obtained through Karma is also transient. It is subject to change and destruction. The pleasures of heaven acquired by good deeds in this world, are also similarly temporary and evanescent. The pleasures of heaven are not also unalloyed. Just as kings are afraid or become jealous of other kings more power fulthan themselves, so also the Jiva while enjoying the pleasures of his Karma in heaven, becomes jealous of others enjoying equal or greater bliss than himself. He sees others expelled from Heaven at the end of their tenure which creates fear that his stay also might come to a similar end.
“Therefore the wise man who desires supreme bliss of Atman should approach a preceptor who has perfect calmness of mind, who is deeply versed in the Vedas and who has realised Para Brahman.
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