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Why is sense-pleasure shunned by the wise?

BHAGAVAD GITA

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Withdraw your senses and be detached from the illusions on nature. When you withdraw your senses from the objects on nature, attraction and desire goes away. When you stay detached from the objects of desire, there is no pride, no jealousy and you realize you possess nothing.

    The work of the nature is to create Attraction and desire which creates anger, delusion, memory loss and aversion which corrupts the senses, mind and reason. Perform actions as a sacrifice to the Almighty God. Perform your duties disinterestedly without expecting results.

    Controlling the senses helps in slaying the desire and helps attaining wisdom. Beyond senses is mind, beyond mind is intellect, beyond intellect is Spirit.

    Sacrifice your actions, senses, powers, wealth and wisdom in the altar of the almighty.

    The hero whose soul is unmoved by circumstance, who accepts pleasure and pain with

    equanimity, only he is fit for immortality.

    Physical action is far inferior to an intellect concentrated on the Divine. Have recourse then to Pure Intelligence. It is only the petty-minded who work for reward. When a man attains to Pure Reason, he renounces in this world the results of good and evil alike. Cling thou to Right Action. Spirituality is the real art of living.

    When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction

    develops into desire, and desire breeds anger. Anger induces delusion; delusion, loss of memory; through loss of memory, reason is shattered; and loss of reason leads to destruction.

    But the self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace. Having attained Peace, he becomes free from misery; for when the mind gains peace, right discrimination follows.

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