Friday 19 November 2010
Friday 3 April 2009
Bhagavad Gita (song of God) extract
Bhagavad Gita 2:55-68 (Wisdom)
The Bhagavad Gita (song of God) is a sacred text of Indian mysticism. This extract is from the chapter known as “yoga of wisdom”.
When a man puts from him all desires that prey upon the mind, contented in Self alone, he is called a man of wisdom. Untroubled by sorrows, no longing for pleasures, no fear from passion, no anger, does not rejoice when good things occur, does not feel sorrow if bad things occur, withdrawing all senses from their proper objects as the tortoise might draw in its limbs. The pleasures of the senses disappear and then even the desires eventually disappear. The restless violence of the senses may subdue even a wise man seeking perfection. Sit and attempt to bring the senses into harmony. When a man dwells on the pleasures of sense, attraction to them is born, then follows desire, then anger, then bewilderment, then wandering of the mind, then destruction of the spirit, then man is lost. The spirit that roves through the worlds of the senses and yet keeps the senses in harmony, free from attraction and aversion finds serenity. The senses rove and sweep away any wisdom like the wind sweeps away a ship on the water.
Monday 19 January 2009
Some views of naked monks.
AUM SHANTI