Give up the urge to enjoy, you live in peace. Abandon
attachment, you reign supreme in tranquillity. Drop the thoughts of possessiveness,
you will be peaceful. All our worry is due to our desire. All our anguish
is due to our acquisitions. All our agony is due to our attachments.
A woman was desirous of enjoying bodily pleasures. She wanted more and
more suitors and customers to visit her for indulgence in the bodily pleasures.
Dressing herself well, one day she waited for a customer. Unfortunately
none turned up. She was disappointed. On the second day too, she was unable
to get one. Days rolled by. There were no people to fulfil her desires.
One day, she looked at a bird with a fish in its mouth or beak. It was
chased by the other birds. Unable to put up with the harassment, the bird
dropped the fish. The haunting group of birds went towards the dropped
fish leaving the bird in peace.
The fish is the desire — desire for possession, desire for enjoyment,
desire for fame etc., Once the fish of desire is dropped, we will be left
free to be peaceful. There will be no fight, no competition, no tension,
no struggle to own or enjoy.
The lady received a lesson and renounced the desire so that she might
live in peace. — Peace is most precious. Anything can be given up
for peace, but not peace for anything else.
As long as a man has the fish, that
is, worldly desires, he must perform actions and consequently suffer from
worry, anxiety, and restlessness. No sooner does he renounce these desires
than his activities fall away and he enjoys peace of soul. But work without
any selfish motive is good. It does not create any worry.-- Sri
Ramakrishna
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