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self-absorbed, and is devoted to meditating over the Paramatman. Truly he needs Tapasya (i.e. meditation) no more.
Once our Baba told us, without much pressure on the mind, do rein in your mind with love. You cannot catch hold of your mind if you go on chasing it like one chasing a cattle in an open field. With all love and affection, if you offer it grass to chew and water to drink, then you can easily have a sway over it.”
Our Baba also said, “The Paramatman, like a bright and brilliant lamp, is always with us in our heart of hearts. When a number of people, for instance, get together in a well-lit hall to enjoy their time in fun and fiesta, and leave the hall after the programme is over, the light within the hall remains the same. similarly, Atman (i.e. soul) remains unaffected by the coming and going of joy and sorrow. The Atman is beyond the realm of thought and it is as wide and infinite as the sky above. This is what sri Krishna has said in the 13th chapter of the Gita.”
On some other day we had been to the ashrama of our Baba. That day in course of his discourse he explained to us how our five senses as a whole create an evil effect in our mind. a moth, a kuranga (deer), a matanga (elephant), a bhringa (frog) and a fish invite death by being a prey to their respective senses. a moth meets its death for its greed in its eyes. same is the case with Kuranga, a prey to ears; an elephant, a prey to touch; a bhringa, a prey to olfactory power; a fish, a prey to temptation. There is someone who jumps into a burning fire; some others get attached being attracted to the sound of flute; while someone gets entangled in a bid to touch his wife; and some other becomes an easy prey to the fish-hook of an angler. Only one sense is enough to tempt a man to death. But could you imagine the plight of mind, a poor prey to the tug-of-war of five different senses? God has granted both rationality and self-restraint to man. Unless a man exercises this power, he is sure to get ruined.
The very next day in the afternoon, we again paid our visit to our Baba. We used to visit him quite often but never for a day was he inquisitive about our whereabouts. he replied to each of our questions but never questioned us. That day as we reached the
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