10.WHERE THE CAUSE HAS ENDED, THE EFFECTS CANNOT CONTINUE:-

10.WHERE THE CAUSE HAS ENDED, THE EFFECTS CANNOT CONTINUE:-

- February 01, 2013

Slokam:-10.

Swami Sankara : When age and its youthfulness have passed away, where is Lust and its play?

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The maddening lust of blinding passion can remain with one only so long as the skin is tight, the muscles are hard, the blood is stormy, and the individual is young and hearty. Lust springs only from the youthfulness. When the cause is removed, the effects cannot remain all by themselves.

When the water has evaporated, where is the Lake?

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When the waters are dried up, the lake can no longer continue to exist. The dried up lake or tank can only express as the bed; only waters are there, can they express themselves as the lake or tank, and serve the world as such. So long as the waters of desire are playing in the mind, the passionate youth vigorously strives to fulfill them. But when once these desires have dried up, how can the man of action strive to acquire and court?

When wealth is reduced, where is the retinue?

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When the wealth is reduced, where are the relations, dependents, supporters - in short, one's entire retinue? They follow behind an individual only so long as he can look after them and they can profit by him. When the capacity in the individual has ended, the retinue also disappears. And wealth is an uncertain possession. Nobody can say when and how she courts an individual, or when she will, without regret, shamelessly push him into penury and starvation and depart in another direction, towards another individual.

When the Truth is realised, where is samsara?

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With these three examples, it is clear that when the cause is absent, the effect is also absent. Carrying this analogy into the subjective realms of spiritual perfection, Sankara asks the question: When Truth is realised, Where is Samsara(life).

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