Guest guest Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Thus Spake The Lord Ignorance is caused by attachment. Attachment results in identification of the I with the body, senses, mind, etc. Attachment leads to desire; desire results in anger; anger blinds reason and promotes ignorance; ignorance breeds dualities of 'mine' and 'thine', good and bad, etc. These lead to activities to make gains and avoid losses, etc; these produce consequences of merit and demerit. They have to be consumed in this life or future lives, so one has to go through suffering. Suffering is caused by life which presupposes suffering. Karma is due to belief in duality. Duality is the result of ignorance, the product of anger. Anger is the child of affection and attachment is the parent of affection. Even Arjuna, the greatest bowman and warrior of his age, became a victim on the battlefield itself of this insidious, false and enfeebling attachment. The mind obeys the senses and defiles man. It is well-nigh impossible for man to master the mid and turn it away from the objective world. Arjuna confessed to Lord Krishna that the mind was uncontrollably wayward and could not be stilled. The mind has two phases: the unpolluted and the polluted. The mind affected by desire is polluted; when it is unaffected by desire, it is unpolluted. Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XV, P. 251-253. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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