'Pidikili Minchani Manasulo, Kadalini Minchina Asalu'
(Oceanful Desires In Fistful Heart)
Abysmal fathom between the physical size of the human body and the incomprehensible countless subtle yearnings within it is well expressed in the above telugu proverb. The amazing contrast between body and mind can be expressed with comparison to a candle. The wick of a candle is hardly a few millimetres and stable in length while the light emanating from it spreads far and wide in all directions. Likewise the physical body, particularly in meditation, is fixed and stable at one place but the mind encompasses realms of the whole cosmos. This expanding nature of the mind is more than an ocean to hold any thing in contemplation.
How to face this type of incongruous human nature is explained by Annamacharya in a tatvic (spiritual knowledge) keertana "Ede Jenalu Yi Dehambunu". (This body is seven spans - stretch between thumb tip and little finger tip - only).....
'This human body is hardly seven spans in size but it's behavioural aspects are beyond any one's comprehension.
'This body is coupled with 'Mind'. Mighty oceans may be filled to full but not so with this Mind which is insatiable. All the plantations on this earth may yield crop fully but the sinful acts have no fruitful end.
'Speedily crawling away snake may be caught effortlessly but the slipping away age can not be held back - day by day increase in age is in other way reduction in longevity day by day. Fire may be extinguished by water within no time but the fire of anger can not be extinguished in any manner.
'It may be possible to reach down the far off 'Patala Loka' (last of seven planes/realms downwards from Bhu Loka (earth) in the Indian philosophy) but it is not possible to visualise the future ahead.
Under these conditions, there is only one way out. As per guidance of the, rain fall drops like umpteen anecdotes about the Almighty, by the seers, it is wise to take refuge in the Almighty Within......'
A subject (like mind) liable to vast expansion must be reversible in action ; That is, with proper sadhana - practice, it is possible for the earnest seeker to minimize, zero down and thus vanishjng of the mind from the scene, in the inward journey thus leading oneself towards only the 'Consciousness' !
Candle - Body Analogy
Om Shanti!
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