From sjayana at yahoo.com  Sun Mar  2 16:40:50 2025
From: sjayana at yahoo.com (S Jayanarayanan)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 21:40:50 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Chaturamnaya] Jagadguru Speaks: Curb Craving, Cultivate Contentment
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(Around the beginning of the month, a nugget of Wisdom from the Jagadguru may be posted
on the Chaturamnaya list : http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/chaturamnaya )
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The srutis that expound our sanatana dharma show man the
path of sreyas. Next in importance to the srutis are the smritis,
itihasas and puranas. There are a number of useful precepts and
morals that man has to know through them.?
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One of them is curbing excess desires. ?An avaricious man
with endless desires comes to ruin? is the message often
conveyed either directly or indirectly through many
illustrations and anecdotes in our scriptures.
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Man can never be happy by submitting himself to the?
demands of his throbbing desires. As the fields of sense?
gratification and desires are inexhaustible, fulfilling each of?
them and then attaining satisfaction is impossible.?
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A desire fulfilled gives rise to a host of new ones. Thus, a?
man will always be tormented by the insatiable list, and?
peace would elude him till the end. Our scriptures advise?
thus:?
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The wise man seeking peace should give up, at the earliest,?
those desires which a dissolute person would find it hard to?
abandon, and those which do not abate even in the face of
infirmity and thus become insatiable by their very nature.
It is the essence of prudence to understand the traps in
the form of desires before one succumbs to them.
May everyone understand this well and lead a peaceful
and purposeful life.
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