The Happiness Of Eternal Love contd..

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Humble Pranams at the Divine Lotus feet Of Our Ever Present Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba!By Performing  Vedic ritualistic activities,by giving money in charity,and by undergoing austerity one can temporarily become free from the reactions of the sinful activities,but at the next moment agains one engages himself in commiting such sinful activities.This can be expalined with an example from Srimad-Bhagawatham.An elephant who enters a lake and takes a bath very seriously,cleansing his body thoroughly.Then as soon as he comes onto the shore he again takes dust from the earth and throws it over his body.Similarly,a person who is not trained in KRSNA consciousness cannot become completely free from the desire for sinful activities.Neither the meditative yoga process nor the philosophical speculations nor frutitive activities can save one from the seeds of sinful desires.Only by being engaged in devotional service can this be done.There is another evidence in the Fourth Canto Of Srimad-Bhagawatham (4-22-39),where in sanat Kumara says,"My dear King,the false ego of a human being is so strong that it keeps him in material existence as if tied up by a strong rope.Only the devotees can cut off the knot of this strong rope very easily,by engaging themselves in KRSNA consciousness.Others ,who are not in KRSNA consciousness but are trying to become great mystics or great ritual performers,cannot advance like the devotees.To be contd..Jai Sri Sai Ram.