Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 15
This smoke does not stay, but he forms the bad habit of smoking and gets addicted to it. Similarly pleasures don't stay but the pleasure-seeker gets into the bad habit of enjoying pleasures. Objects of pleasures disappear naturally and there is natural disinclination for them but because of bad habit, he gets attached to the pleasures and actually being independent, he feels that he is dependent upon them. In spite of being engrossed in pleasures, in fact his untaintedness is not wiped out but he does not take any heed of it and doesn't attach importance to it. He in spite of having no affinity with the body, having assumed affinity with it, derives pleasure from it. Affinity is transient while disunion is eternal. The body being of the class of the world (inert and kaleidoscopic), is different from the category of the Self. It is not possible to have relationship with the thing which is alien. Being a fragment of God, the soul and God are of the same nature. Therefore he (the Soul) has his natural affinity with God. If a person (the Self) by having faith in utterances of Saints, God and the scriptures, accepts his affinity with God, he will realize his natural affinity with God. But he attaches importance to objects. Unless he accepts his affinity with God, God does not let him have his affinity with any other thing but breaks it off. A man in spite of applying his full force, can't maintain his relationship with the world permanently. |