Pleasures and pains experienced in this earthly existence are but potential harming agents when observed closely at them. Their functionality is same - that of dragging one in to bondages over and over in the cycles of births and deaths. Nothing to be found so special about this at anytime. It's rather a matter of routine for the earthlings.
The vanity of these ephemeral pleasures and pains and a wise escape from them is described by Annamacharya, with various similes, in his sankirtana, "Emi Gala Dindu Enta Kalam Baina".......
'Human desires and passions are like insurmountable mountain. If any infatuation crops up, it entangles like a wall separating from all other issues and persons in to the less priority ones. Senility is weak and fragile like that of a pith. This body like wound always itching for something or other. The passions of sensual pleasures are but like a fig looking beautiful and shiny outwardly but infested with worms when opened apart.
'Mind is brittle like bell metal; broken into pieces when slips down. Wealth is like melting iceberg. It vanishes within no time. Sensual pleasure is a delusion lasting about a wink of eye. Glamour is fleeting like 'minchu' - a toe ornament worn by groom only on the occasion of wedding and discarded next moment. Help done to others is easily forgotten by them like the 'muttu penchu' - a piece of clay touched by the untouchables and thrown away. Over all, concern about these ephemeral ones detailed above is great delusion in itself.
'This birth is like a restriction (bondage). Nobody ever knows when the relief would be forthcoming for him. Contemplation is like the ankle, stay put along with oneself lifelong. 'Karma bandha' - entanglements of actions is like the 'paka' - thatched shelter; which can't be deserted at any time. But when the grace of Almighty is sought with reverence, all the heat of mundane acts turn one's life into a mine of mirths'........
Spiritual awakening is the cherished motive behind the sankeertanas of Annamcharya, that too in a pleasant way of quoting day to day objects as similes, targeted at the commoner. So the educated would find it more easier to follow his message about the path of realisation !
The vanity of these ephemeral pleasures and pains and a wise escape from them is described by Annamacharya, with various similes, in his sankirtana, "Emi Gala Dindu Enta Kalam Baina".......
'Human desires and passions are like insurmountable mountain. If any infatuation crops up, it entangles like a wall separating from all other issues and persons in to the less priority ones. Senility is weak and fragile like that of a pith. This body like wound always itching for something or other. The passions of sensual pleasures are but like a fig looking beautiful and shiny outwardly but infested with worms when opened apart.
'Mind is brittle like bell metal; broken into pieces when slips down. Wealth is like melting iceberg. It vanishes within no time. Sensual pleasure is a delusion lasting about a wink of eye. Glamour is fleeting like 'minchu' - a toe ornament worn by groom only on the occasion of wedding and discarded next moment. Help done to others is easily forgotten by them like the 'muttu penchu' - a piece of clay touched by the untouchables and thrown away. Over all, concern about these ephemeral ones detailed above is great delusion in itself.
'This birth is like a restriction (bondage). Nobody ever knows when the relief would be forthcoming for him. Contemplation is like the ankle, stay put along with oneself lifelong. 'Karma bandha' - entanglements of actions is like the 'paka' - thatched shelter; which can't be deserted at any time. But when the grace of Almighty is sought with reverence, all the heat of mundane acts turn one's life into a mine of mirths'........
Spiritual awakening is the cherished motive behind the sankeertanas of Annamcharya, that too in a pleasant way of quoting day to day objects as similes, targeted at the commoner. So the educated would find it more easier to follow his message about the path of realisation !
Pleasure of Treasure !
Om Shanti !
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