Wooden Sticks which cause a Fire are themselves consumed by it

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said:

The influence of material nature has covered the living entity, and thus it is as if the living entity were always in a blazing fire. But by the process of seriously discharging devotional service, this influence can be removed, just as wooden sticks which cause a fire are themselves consumed by it.

Fire is conserved in wooden sticks, and when circumstances are favorable, the fire is ignited. But the wooden sticks which are the cause of the fire are also consumed by the fire if it is properly dealt with. Similarly, the living entity’s conditional life of material existence is due to his desire to lord it over material nature and due to his envy of the Supreme Lord. Thus his main diseases are that he wants to be one with the Supreme Lord or he wants to become the lord of material nature…

 

The Bhaktivedanta purports of the Third Canto, Twenty-seventh Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,entitled “Understanding Material Nature.” Text 23

 

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Comments

  1. Pamho agtacbsp, the blazing fire of material existence can be destroy by the fire of knowledge and although we use the body to turn on the fire the same body get destroyed by the fire in the same way lusty desire get destroy by the same lusty energy which is pure madness but a devotee got a different vision I mean it does not matter how attractive is maha maya because the ingredients are the same in duhkhalayam asasvatam therefore don’t waste time in worldly things because he know by experience that it’s all stink the so called material pleasure in maya sukaya flickring happiness but at the end they are not able even to go in toilet this is the same menu of the mortal samsara world of janma, mrityu , vyadhi ….we are out of this material menu by the mercy of SSGG. Agtacbsp ys haribol .

  2. Pamho agtacbsp, unfortunately the blazing fire of material existence keeping going until the invisible wretches are there because unless we become pure devotees without any trace of bodily concept of life the enemy is there from birth until death this is the most unsafe material world, as we can see even pure devotees as HDG ACBSP found enemy in this most disgusting age and they KILLED HIM, therefore we are really safe in the spiritual world only since the material world is padam padam yad vipadam at any step there is danger,we can’t trust even to family members so in God only we trust.agtacbsp ys haribol

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