The document discusses the characteristics of worldly-minded people. It describes them as being mad after wealth and pleasure, constantly desiring more attachment. They dislike anything related to religion, find spiritual conversations boring, and try to discourage others from spiritual practices. Worldly people are happiest when unattached in youth but become depressed and anxious when bound by responsibilities of family life. In contrast, those awakened to God remain joyful and carefree.
The document discusses the characteristics of worldly-minded people. It describes them as being mad after wealth and pleasure, constantly desiring more attachment. They dislike anything related to religion, find spiritual conversations boring, and try to discourage others from spiritual practices. Worldly people are happiest when unattached in youth but become depressed and anxious when bound by responsibilities of family life. In contrast, those awakened to God remain joyful and carefree.
The document discusses the characteristics of worldly-minded people. It describes them as being mad after wealth and pleasure, constantly desiring more attachment. They dislike anything related to religion, find spiritual conversations boring, and try to discourage others from spiritual practices. Worldly people are happiest when unattached in youth but become depressed and anxious when bound by responsibilities of family life. In contrast, those awakened to God remain joyful and carefree.
The document discusses the characteristics of worldly-minded people. It describes them as being mad after wealth and pleasure, constantly desiring more attachment. They dislike anything related to religion, find spiritual conversations boring, and try to discourage others from spiritual practices. Worldly people are happiest when unattached in youth but become depressed and anxious when bound by responsibilities of family life. In contrast, those awakened to God remain joyful and carefree.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WORLDLY-MINDED
188. Men are of two classes-men in .. name only
(Manush) and the awakened men (Man-hush). Those who thirst after God alone belong to ''the latter class; those who are mad after ' woman and gold ' are all ordinary men-men in name only. 189. As one mask may be worn by various persons, s�lso various kinds of creatures have donned the garb of humanity. Some are tearing wolves, rithers are ferocious bears, and some again are cunning foxes or venomous snakes, thoftgh they all look like men. 190. Just • as it is the nature of the sieve to reject the • fine grains and to keep the coarse ones, so it is the nature of evil souls to reject the go�d and ret8'n the evil. Just '' op,osite �., the nature of the w.innowin11: ba�ket and the . 0¥ good souls. Characteristics of the Worully-Minded 79
191. There are people who are so situated in life that
naturally they have nothing in the world to attract them, but would yet create for themselves some attachment and get themselves bound by it. They neither want nor like to be free. A man who has no family t� care for, nor relatives to look after, generally takes a cat or a monkey or a dog or a bird for a pet and fondles it, and thus ' slakes his thirst for milk with mere whey •·. Such is the snare that Maya's charm has set for humanity. 192. The new-born calf looks very lively and gay. It runs and frisks about all day long, only stopping now and then t.J suck the sweet milk fr'lm its dam. But no sooner is the rope tied round its neck than it begins to pine away gradually, and, far from being merry, wears a dejected and sorrowful look, and gets emaciated. In the same way, so long as a bey has no concern with the affairs of the world, he is quite merry and gay. But when he once gets himself locked in the w�rld, as it were, with the strong bar of ·wedlock, ;nd is harnessed with the responsibilities of family life, all his joy vanishes. He wears a look of dejection, care and anxiety ; no more is there the glow of health on his cheeks, and deep wrinkles gradually furrow his for-.. head. Blessed is he that remains a boy throughout his life. free as the 'warning air fresh as a newly opened flower, and pul'e as a dew-droQ, � 193. As a little boy or girl can have no, id�a of conjugal pleasure, eveu so a worldly man cannot at all comprehend the ecstasy of Di-tine comm�nion. 194. J The worldlr• man cann�t easily reljist ihdure of, 'woman an� gold',' and turn hir,mind to God, although he 80 Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna may be relentlessly buffeted by the miseries and sufferings of life. 195. A worldly man is best known by his antipathy to whatever savours of religion. Not only does he himself dislike to hear any hymn or sacred music or the chanting 0£ the holy ' name · of God, but he dissuades others from listening to them. He who scoffs at prayers, religious societies and pious men, is indeed a true worldling. 196. Sometimes I see worldly-minded men coming to me with pious devotees. These worldly men have no liking for religious conversations. So they become very impatient and restless while the others are having lcug talks about God and spirituality. ,They find it very difficult even to sit still, and hence whisper in their friends' ears. " When are you going ? How long will you stay ? " Occasionally their friends would say, "Wait -:1 little. We are coming presently." Disgusted with then- words, these worldly men would reply, "Then you l'-iad better continue your talk. We shall go now and wait for you i� the boat " (which was to take them back to Calcutta). 197. While talking with a worldly man, one can see �early how his heart is stuffed with all kinds of worldly Jhoughts and desires, just as the crop of the pigeon is filled with grain. 198. The beart of a sinful man" is like curly hair. You will never succeed in straightening it, howsoever you may try. So als� th'e heart of the wicked cannot .be easily made upright and pure. _ ' 1 � The, mendicant' s calabash •jug (Kamandalµ) may '1tave bee'n to the four ' Phamas (the four d.ief places of
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