Steady Wisdom
Q.What is the definition of a man of steady wisdom, absorbed in Contemplation?
The Blessed lord said :
When a man gives up all desired of the mind, and himself delights in his self, then he is said to be a man of a steady wisdom.
He who is unperturbed in misery and free from desires amidst pleasure, who is devoid of all attachment, fear and anger-- that stage is said to be of steady wisdom.
He who is free from affection everywhere, and who getting whatever good or evils neither welcomes nor hates them has steady wisdom.
And when completely withdraws his senses from the sense-objects, even as a tortoise its limbs, then his wisdom is steady.
From an abstemious embodied being (man) sense-objects fall off, but not the relish (for them) ; but even this relish of the man of steady wisdom ceases when that Supreme being is realized.
The turbulent senses, forcibly lead astray the mind of even the struggling wise person.
Controlling all these (senses), the self-controller a person thinking of the sense-objects there grows an attachment for them ; from attachment arises desire, from desire results anger, from anger results delusion, from delusion results confusion of memory, from confusion of memory results destruction of intelligence and from destruction of intelligence he perishes.
But that person of controlled self who moves about amidst sense-objects with the senses governed by the self and free from attachment and aversion,---he attains serenity.
When this serenity is attained there results the destruction of all his misery . Verily, the wisdom of the serene-minded one gets steady soon.
For the uncontrolled person there is no knowledge, nor is there meditation for him ; and for the unmeditative person there is no peace,and for one benefit of peace how can there be happiness?
Whichever of the wandering senses the mind follows, that one carries away his wisdom as the wind a ship on the sea.
Therefore, he whose senses are well controlled from their objects has steady wisdom.
That which to all creature is night, is where the man of self-control is wide awake, and that in which (all0 creatures are wide awake is night to the sage who sees.
He attains peace into whom all sense-objects even s rivers enter an ocean which is unaffected though being ever filled, and not one who is desires of enjoyments.
That person who is giving up all sense-objects goes about unattached, devoid of the idea of ownership and free from egoism----he attains peace.
This is the absolute infinite state, attaining it one is not (again) deluded ; one who rests in it , even at the time of death, attains absolute freedom in the infinite.
But that person of controlled self who moves about amidst sense-objects with the senses governed by the self and free from attachment and aversion,---he attains serenity.
When this serenity is attained there results the destruction of all his misery . Verily, the wisdom of the serene-minded one gets steady soon.
For the uncontrolled person there is no knowledge, nor is there meditation for him ; and for the unmeditative person there is no peace,and for one benefit of peace how can there be happiness?
Whichever of the wandering senses the mind follows, that one carries away his wisdom as the wind a ship on the sea.
Therefore, he whose senses are well controlled from their objects has steady wisdom.
That which to all creature is night, is where the man of self-control is wide awake, and that in which (all0 creatures are wide awake is night to the sage who sees.
He attains peace into whom all sense-objects even s rivers enter an ocean which is unaffected though being ever filled, and not one who is desires of enjoyments.
That person who is giving up all sense-objects goes about unattached, devoid of the idea of ownership and free from egoism----he attains peace.
This is the absolute infinite state, attaining it one is not (again) deluded ; one who rests in it , even at the time of death, attains absolute freedom in the infinite.
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