Shiva's Spirituality
* Bhogavasana – latencies connected with enjoyments.*
This includes such notions as “This is good and I must have it, this is not good and I don’t want it, I want more and more things to enjoy and more and more enjoyment,” etc. Why must you have this particular material item or this particular experience of the senses? It is worth absolutely nothing in the whole scheme of things. Prakriti is Maya; Matter is Illusion. Krishna tells you in the Bhagavad Gita that the enjoyment of sensual pleasure is the womb of pain. You keep on wanting and desiring and craving and lusting for more and more things to enjoy but your enjoyment of them is always inevitably short lived. Why not wake up now from this dream and pursue the only real and lasting joy? As for so-called worldly enjoyments, “you should enjoy all things after giving up the desire for them,” says the Isha Upanishad. The end of desire is the end of suffering. You are not this (idam); you are That (Tat). Do not mistake the not-Self for the Self....
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