Sunday 17 November 2013

DOOMED by FREEDOM

 “Just as a person who is whirling around perceives the ground to be turning, one who is affected by false ego thinks himself the doer, when actually only his mind is acting " -         SB 10.46. 41
"The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature." BG 3.27

"When the jiva in waking and dream state, becomes absorbed in the gunas of prakrti, bewildered by ego, he thinks that he is the doer."  SB 3.27.2

"Our freedom consists in orienting our desire either toward the ignorant, material misconception or the true spiritual conception." SB 2.2.35 Purport 

Whatever religion, whatever belief or even without believing at all, in moment of solitude, after a storm in one's life and pains are deep and still burning, it is easier to speak truly to oneself and inevitably addressing also the Paramatma, that  form of God in our heart and always with us, Who makes sure that we get our fate and desires, but also Who awakens that dim light of small realization, a tiny remembrance, that makes us turn, even just once, to Him.
Listen to this poem set into melody https://soundcloud.com/mauro-auaro/doomed-by-freedom

or watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxJe7eshKkc
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You have taken the form of Time
to break down the sense of "mine"
a life of strife
and strives for “mine”
just hands full of “ends”,
as time lent
for the sun rises and sets
taking life breath by breath
fearing to ask who am I
while life scrolled, out of my control
I deemed myself free
leading life the way I liked to be,
but mind chained me to its delusions.
Deluded by loss
and lost illusions
I shed tears and tears,
on pieces of shattered ego
ephemeral pivot of joy
in this carousel of  "I"
where playing the player
of Your play,
I confused the Self
in reflections of this mirror maze
dazzled me to seem the Doer.




SB 10.51.19 "Inexhaustible Time, stronger than the strong, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.  Like a herdsman moving his animals along, He moves mortal creatures as His pastime."



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