Fwd: Eradication of Desire.

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Jai Sai Ram,

 

I have signed up to this website where they send me quotes from a spiritual book named, " Tirukural " .

 

This one was very interesting and I thought of sharing with you all...Please see the email below.

 

" " ...If the mind be allowed to run after objects and be attached to them, our cycle of births and deaths will not come to an end " . (Shri Sai Satcharita, pg 252, Ch 49).

 

Jai Sai Ram---------- Forwarded message ----------Kauai's Hindu Monastery <Kauai_Hindu_Monastery

>23 Apr 2007 01:09:01 -0700Tirukural Installment 37Tirukural Readers <kuralChapter 37 -- Eradication of Desire

KURAL 361At all times and to all creatures,the seed of ceaseless births is desire.KURAL 362If you must desire, desire freedom from birth.That will only come by desiring desirelessness.

KURAL 363Here no fortune is as dear as desirelessness;and even there, nothing like it can be found.KURAL 364Purity is but freedom from desire,and that comes from thirsting after Truth.

KURAL 365They say only those who have renounced desire are renunciates.Others, though they have renounced all else, are not.KURAL 366As it is desire, above all else, which deceives a man,

ascetics rightfully dread it.KURAL 367Desisting from all desire-driven deeds, a renouncerfinds liberation approaching, just as he desired.KURAL 368He who has no desires has no sorrow.

But where desire exists, endless sorrows ensue.KURAL 369When desire, sorrow's sorrow, dies away,undying bliss prevails here on Earth.KURAL 370It is the nature of desire never to be fulfilled, but he who utterly

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