Can we avoid 'mud' ? Yes, a million dollar question certainly for a serious spiritual seeker, if not for others. Before venturing to answer, one seeks some more details about the conditions prevailing. As we know; for a potter, brick maker, farmer in the field, miners and men of some such vocations, the coexistence with mud is inevitable. They accept it as their daily bread earning environment. Their stance towards 'mud' as a 'part and parcel of their life', shall be our enlightening knowledge.
We, the mortals, being composed of Five Elements, came in to this world with pure mind. Our journey begins with the slow creeping in of 'trigunas' (three attributes namely, Satvaguna, Rajoguna and Tamoguna) affecting and polluting the otherwise prestine pure mind. Our virtues and vices are imbibed from the environment we grow in. If our virtues lead to pleasant and peaceful living, our vice drag down into 'muddy' conditions which offer semblance of paradise, to the Fallen.
We owe much for our seers who gave knowledge about this 'mud' - The entanglement of bondages
arising from hopes, desires, aspirations fraught with resultant untold grief. Trace it to get the roots ! It is after all the tricky mind, which in its turn being ordained (manipulated) by the Almighty residing within. Thus we have knowledge about root cause of our role play and we shall get benefited from
the savant, Annmacharya for the 'remedy' for safe play in our stage show. He has shown how to break the seemingly perpetual vicious cycle of births.
The tatva jnana (spiritual knowledge) loaded keertana by Annamacharya "Kadu Nadusu Chora Nela. Kallu Kaduga Nela" amply exemplifies about the prelude passages above. The content of his message is explained in the following paras.
‘The
Almighty Himself is residing in the form of Soul (Consciousness) in all of
us. Being encompassed by the attachments
of the worldly bondages, we are carried away in the ocean of recycling births
and deaths. We are stuck up in the ‘mud’.
As the attachments are growing one after another, the mind is being engrossed
with acts of sin thus forgetting about the Almighty residing within. Fallen we are though, we ourselves only- by individual efforts, have to search
for Him and realise. Till then no respite from these difficulties, indulgences
and woes. Noble souls like our sages and
savants have shown the path to Supreme Knowledge. And if we are still not
benefiting from them, that must be a pity!
‘Being well
aware of the place, why one should walk in to the mud. And waste lot of time
and energy in washing away to get rid of the stuck up mud on the legs. Similarly, is it
wise to commit unwarranted actions which are throwing us into vast ocean of
births.
‘The main
reason for committing sins is one’s attachments only. The reason for these attachments is
aspirations cropping up from the unending desires. And for all these, the root cause is entanglement
on account of maligned bondages.
‘Endless
bondages are resulting in untold grief. The grief and woes are turning out in
to arrogance. For all these happenings the root cause again is, no one else but
the tricky Mind.
‘Who is
behind all the divergences of the Mind? It is the Doer, the Almighty within. It
is by one’s own individual efforts only He can be known. It is only possible by meditating on Him and taking
refuge in Him. Again for such happening in our lives His Grace is essential. Else the vast ocean of births becomes
inevitable'......
A great relief indeed in coming to know about such remedy passed on to us by noble souls. Let us become enthusiastic about implementing the steps suggested for our liberation.
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