We all say that we enjoy life and that we are joyful with the help of senses. But Bhagawan says, Really, you are not enjoying the senses. The senses enjoy you - you are not enjoying the senses.
We have to ponder deeply on this, that if we really enjoyed life with the help of our senses, then we should be stronger and stronger day by day. But this is not the case. The senses enjoy at our expense and ultimately debility is the result. After every sensual enjoyment, we become weak. Therefore, who is enjoying whom? In fact the senses are enjoying at our expense.
How do the senses enjoy? The senses find expression depending on the thoughts and the desires entertained by the mind. Hence it is the mind that entertains the thoughts and the desires. These are translated into action through the medium of senses, making the person ultimately weak. It follows, therefore, that if the mind is not mastered, or disciplined or not kept in proper channels, we become weak. Rather, we grow in age faster than we should.
(From the book "Sai-chology" by Prof. K. Anil Kumar)
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