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HINDU ETHICS |
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| The Bhagavad Gita
has some well-known verses on this point: - "Yoga is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats too little. It is not for him, 0 Arjuna, who sleeps too much, nor for him who keeps vigils too long. But for the man who is temperate in his food and recreation, who is restrained in all his actions and who has regulated his sleep and vigils. Yoga puts an end to all sorrow." The higher phase of self-conquest is detachment, the third cardinal virtue. We have not only to over come what is evil in life, but also to be independent of the good things of life. Our domestic affections, for in stance, our family ties, our love of home and friends are all good in themselves, but as long as we are blindly attached to these earthly things we are only on the lower rungs of the spiritual ladder. Naturally these attachments are very strong in early life. But the first shock of death opens our eyes to the ephemeral nature of those ties. We then begin to understand the conditions of our tenure on earth. We begin to reflect on the fact that in this world we are all creatures of time. We and the objects of our love are only like pieces of wood that drift together for a time on the ocean flood and then part forever. |
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