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Monday |
"Vachanamrut Gadhada II-55
The title of this Vachanamrut is ‘A Goldsmith’s Workshop.’
In it Shriji Maharaj gives the analogy of a goldsmith to explain the
nature of one’s indriyas and antahkaran.
“If a person takes some pure, 24-carat gold to a goldsmith’s
workshop, but takes his eyes off of it for even a moment, the goldsmith
will extract some of the gold and alloy some silver in its place.
Similarly, consider the goldsmith’s workshop to be the heart
and the goldsmith to be mãyã. While the goldsmith is
sitting within his workshop – the heart – he is continuously
hammering away with his hammer of desires. Even his wife and children
secretly steal some gold if they can get their hands on it. Consider
the indriyas and antahkaran to be the wife and children of mãyã
in the form of the goldsmith; after all, it is they who add silver
– i.e., the three gunas, attachment to the panchvishays, the
belief that one is the body and that one has lust, anger, avarice,
etc. – into the chaitanya, i.e., the gold. Not only that, but
they also extract some gold in the form of the virtues of gnãn,
vairãgya, etc.”"
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1880 |
Jeth |
sud 11 |
