Satsang COMPLETE SURRENDER

Satsang COMPLETE SURRENDER

COMPLETE SURRENDER
Man is an organised being having sensation and voluntary motion typically
distinguished from animal which is organised and has life but apparently no
knowledge, intellect or reasoning power. This goes to prove that man is also
an animal but a social and an intellectual being having the power of
reasoning. This quality of sociability and intellectuality has segregated
him, and has made him hold his head high above all animal world. But the
seeds of Rise and Fall of man are sown and are latent in this so-called boon
of sociability and intellectuality as it always is double-edged like a blade
of a razor or a knife.

The sane man and the one whose line of thinking is right and judicious will
make the best use of these qualities to cross the boundaries of all senses,
the passions, the internal enemies-Passion or lust (Anuraag), Anger or wrath
(raag), jealousy or malice (matsar), Pride or vanity (ahankar), greed or
avarice (lobha), enticement or infatuation (moha), and to keep them within
bounds. But this does not mean that one should not possess these qualities.
One should have these qualities to make the best use of them to serve the
noble cause such as, speaking and establishing truth, protecting the weak
and fragile, to emancipate the suffering souls from their grief, to free the
poor souls from the clutches of the inhuman, vicious, malicious, mischievous
and sinful hands and at large in doing good to the human society of which he
is a part and parcel, as he can discriminate between good and bad, well and
ill and justice and injustice and can try to imbibe and inculcate the one
and avert and abrogate the other. His judicious power helps him to sublimate
his senses and illuminate thereby in him a sense of selflessness and
selfless service to the human society. Here his intellect works like a
knife, an inanimate object, in the hands of a doctor, that effects operation
on the living being and feels proud of itself for having saved the life of
an animate object. Here even this inanimate object has the sense of joy and
satisfaction of having done some useful and yeoman service to the humanity.

An insane, imprudent, an indiscriminate and viscious mind will always fall
an easy prey to these senses and adheres to the state of being actuated by
mere animal appetites, brutishness, ruthlessness, and sensuality and gives a
wrong twist and turn to the intellect and this forces the mind to fall into
spoils and to follow the path of his own genesis, the animals. His line of
thinking always drags him towards, ruin, distraction and damage to the life
and property of the poor and innocent souls.

(to be contd....)
By Shri M. M. Amingad
Gulunche, Tal; Purandhar, Dist: Pune

Source Shri Sai Leela Magazine August 1974)
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