🌺 Siddharameshwar Maharaj

 

The greatest evil habit is worldly life.

It is called the "Great Addiction".

By force of this addiction to worldly life,

Paramatman is made to believe

that He is an individual, and is compelled

to live a worldly life as if in prison.

All bad habits can be dropped,

but the addiction to mundane life

is the most difficult to drop.

The wife is dear to her husband

so long as she obeys him.

The mundane worldly life is called

the blindingly dark life.

The greatest inticement of Illusion is

this mundane life.

However great may be one's sorrow,

this addiction cannot be dropped.

One is greatly lucky if this addiction

is dropped.

There is only one person who condemns

the worldly life, and he is a Saint.

Nobody else does that.

One does not even think of this earthly life,

even if one suffers the utmost difficulties.

People try to strengthen their ties with others

by speaking to them respectfully and

congratulating each other over small things.

People compete with each other

for earning more honors and status.

In this way, they feel that they are happy in life.

They act as if this is a respectable bad habit.

The God of Death is happy to give you

many kinds of bodies and various troubles.

Give up the sense of "mine".

Know that the body is your enemy.

Very few are those who have truly understood.

Only those who are lucky enough to receive

the blessings of the Guru,

who is the Self, can escape

from this Illusion by right efforts.

All others are bound to the treadmill of life

in various incarnations

and they make houses of bodies

of various shapes and duration.

From "Master of Self-Realization,

An Ultimate Understanding", ch. 41