32.Lust -blinded person is, in fact, a blind

Lust -blinded person is, in fact, a blind
O brethren! Meritorious act is not the cause of the path of salva¬tion. That is also 'karma' and is the cause of influx & bondage of ’karma Meritorious/ virtuous act is not harmful, but to regard it as salvation in itself, is harmful. After all ,the path is only a path, the path can never become destination. Those who stop regarding the path as destination, they can never get destination. Only that man can take care of his own-self who is in his own nature. Who lives in passionate feel¬ings ,i.e. feelings contrary to real nature that can not prop up self. When the person lives in affluence then he begins to strut but who remains in his nature he does not cast a glance towards that wealth regarding that as inert. He tries to understand that the mass of dark clouds would I increase his inner blackness, then why should run after wealth? One who has faith in his 'karma ’? he does not pant after the race. To per- J severe is not prohibited but the attachment behind the inert., the intense | greed towards lust, is prohibited. The great poet Tulsidas ji was strongly attached to his wife. Once she went to her father’s house in his absence then he immediately reached his father-in-law house crossing the swelling Ganges River. His wife expressed her unhappiness for this kind of much attachment to her.

O brothers! The lust-blined person is not only blind by eyes but is blind both ways internally & externally. That swelling Ganges river he crossed taking support of which understanding a piece of wood was actually not any wood but a dead body sitting on which he crossed the river and reached home and holding which rope he entered the house was infact, not the rope but the snake. The lust blinded person does not even fear, he also stakes his prestige for it and does not also care for his own life. Well, he goes on engrossing his ownself in passion and sensual enjoyments. By the time he comes in his senses, he reaches on the verge of death. He lives repressing his tears within his inner self. Hence, who leaving the slavery of senses engrossed in the devotion of Ram becomes like Tulsidas. When the wife of Tulsidas ji scolds him

severely, then he becoming a devotee of Ram, composes "Ram Chant Manasan outstanding treatise and becomes "Maha Kavi Tulsidas". O brothers, what is visible that I am not. If attained the knowledge of soul, etc., seven realities and nine matters sitting near one’s own soul and accepted that, then it will be understood as your right faith, having faith contrary to it, has no place in religion. If considering your body as your soul then you are ignorant - stupid, your faith will be erroneous. Accept that as it is, not otherwise. If water comes in the contact of fire, it will not turn into fire. If the living being is transforming contrary to the real nature, is surrounded by storm of passions still he can prop up himself. What is the use of holding a lamp in one's hand if he is to fall in a well? likewise, it is of little use to be equipped with the so called knowledge of reality if a person remains engrossed in a variety of activities without realising which of them are to be abandoned and which to be adopted