Saturday, August 22, 2009

Excessive Enjoyment

We attach too much importance to the well-being of the body - hence the misery.

This world has no permanent happiness for us.

We eat, we drink - in the end the food eats us.

Excessive enjoyment through the senses will result in the senses enjoying us!

We will become incapable of enjoying -- satiated. It is easily apparent that those who over eat get bad livers, stomachs, etc.

The ancient Rishis related that the food angel went to Lord Vishnu with the complaint that people were eating him mercilessly.

Lord Vishnu solved his problem by advising, "Those who eat you unnecessarily -- you eat them!"

So, indulging in excess, loses its power of enjoyment.

An Illusion ?

We never stop to realize that the body will not last forever.

A man went to a fakir and informed him that a certain man was dying.

The fakir asked the dying man's age and was told that he was seventy two years old.

The fakir promptly said, "He has been dying for 72 years now--this is merely his last breath."

A mother considers that her child is growing, but is he?

If he is destined to live for fifty years, then when he is ten, only forty are left.

When he reaches twenty years of age, only thirty years are left.

We can never escape this paradoxical illusion without rising above the body by self-analysis.

In summay, we are dying everyday.