O DISTRACTED ONE!

Slokam:-13.

 

The entire slokam is addressed to sensuous men, and the Acharya Sankara Swamikal here calls them, the best among fools who constantly waste themselves in lascivious thoughts( O Distracted  one! )

 

 

'Why worry about wife or wealth?'

 

 

Why dissipate mentally over the lips of your lady? To worry over anything will not pay in life. To worry means to waste your mental energies,  men fail, not because the world is strong enough to break them down, but it is always only because men become weaker and thus relatively the world-of-happenings is rendered more powerful. The weak must perish is the law of nature.

 

To consider wife  as only a chattel for your pleasure and sense-gratification is to pull down the institution of home and sanctity of the motherhood in her

 

Association with the good people:-

 

 

Satsangam is the remedy, this contact will develop in us a healthy attitude towards things, which in their turn, will give a new purpose and direction for our life.

 

Dama (self-control), Sama ( mental peace), Santosha ( inner joy):-

 

Physical self control brings about mental peace, which creates a satisfying inner joy of the spiritual heart. Satsang with spiritual teachers and co-students will help us throughout our pilgrimage. This alone serve as a boat to cross the sea of change (birth and death). Constant association with the wise, becomes thus a protective armour  on the inner-spirit .