Vaat 6.94
Swamini Vato Prakaran 6 Vaat 94 · 6 · Verse 94
Sanskrit Original
Strīno sang karavo ne kām ochho thāshe? Vadhashe. Khāshu ne svād ochho thāshe? Vadhashe. Ne hathiyār bāndhashu ne krodh ochho thāshe? Vadhashe. Te māṭe eno jog na rākhe to rahevāshe, ne sheraḍī ūbhī hoy te jāṇīe thor ūbho chhe tyāre rahevāy, nīkar man to chāhe tem karāve. 'Kaḍe1 man makoḍī thīye kaḍe kesarī sinha,' em ekale uparthī rākhye shu thayu! E to būḍṭhūnṭhā2 antarmāthī paṇ kāḍhavā. Te upar bolyā je, 'Jem uparthī moḍatā vṛukṣha,3 lāge patra tenā bījā lakṣha.' Footnotes: 1. 1. Kyārek. 2. Khetarmā boraḍīne kheḍūt kodāḷīthī khodī kāḍhe chhe. Chhatā jo ūnḍe mūḷ rahī jāy to haḷ chalāvatā te bharāī jāy ne baḷadne ānchako lāge, kyārek vadhu paḍatā baḷ karatā baḷadne kāndh āvī jāy ane dukhī thāy. Ā mūḷiyāne kheḍūto ‘būḍṭhūṭhā’ kahe chhe. 3. Vṛukṣha uparnī ḍāḷīo kāpī nākhavāmā āve to bījī anek ḍāḷīo tene fūṭe chhe ne lākho pāndaḍā āve chhe.
By associating with women, will lust decrease? It will increase. By eating, will desire for tasty foods decrease? It will increase. If one keeps a weapon, will anger decrease? It will increase. Therefore, by not keeping their contact, one can remain unattached. If sugarcane (i.e. material pleasures) is seen standing and believed to be a cactus (i.e. of no real value), then one can resist; otherwise, the mind can make one do as it wishes. ‘Sometimes the mind becomes like an ant1 and sometimes like a lion.’ So, what is achieved by merely resisting superficially. Those deep roots of strong desire2 have to be removed even from within. On this, Swami said, “Jem uparthi modtā vruksh, lāge patra tenā bijā laksh – By cutting the branches of a tree from the top, still more branches and leaves will sprout.” Footnotes: 1. 1. That is, of limited strength. 2. When wild growth is cleared in farmland, the soil has to be dug deep to remove all the deep roots. Otherwise, the wild plants will regrow.