Perversive sensuality
Leaving the bliss of the self aside
You take to engrossing
In the sensual pursuits as source of pleasure
Fool ! you have wasted the life ;
never cared for spiritual weal. (1)
Water shakes in the pitcher,
Does not reflect the face of the looker ;
Sensual pursuits disturb the vision
Of the self on the screen of mind (2)
The shade of a cloud passes in a moment
Pleasure of the senses, transient by nature,
Takes no time to perish after enjoyment,
O my friend, just ponder for a moment (3)
Transitory is the pleasure,
The senses offer.
Intoxication of caras, flowers of hemp,
Leaves the addict lifeless, defected. (4)
The elephant tastes only once,
And is held hostage for the whole life ;
When robbers are five, who can rescue ;
They plunder day and night. (5)
Give up pursuit of sensual pleasures,
By body, mind and speech, Drink the nectar of the atman,
Ponder over Brahman day and night || (6)
Engrossed in pleasures of the senses and physique,
Does not give up the habit to neglect.
Amrit asks how would the agony
Of birth and death end, and the cycle, break. (7)
Roamed the places day and night
To find the sources of the pleasures of senses.
Spent up the span of life, never satisfied,
And Amrit says never enjoyed the peace of mind. (8)
A tree on the bank of a river
may fall and perish in no time,
So the pleasures sensual by nature,
perish in a moment, abandon them
and become indifferent to opposite feelings
Of pleasure and pain (9)
The sense are the seats of fault,
Their tastes various, the man enjoys
One after another ; the orgy ends up
Never in life : Amrit, the sage, cautions the negligent.(10)
The word, the touch, the taste, the form
The fragrance, the five are the elements
At times they come up, turn by turn,
Or together to fascinate the living
On the plane mundane and
keep him enslaved - the role of
maya, the illusory power (11)
To possess the object of sensual pleasure,
One suffers the anguish beyond limit ;
Does not get peace for a moment ;
The force of the flow of the mid is great,
Amrit warns to hold anyhow (12)
Lust for sex gets strong and strong ;
One doe not count the sin, the outcome
The fall out ; mad after it, one indulges
In the orgy, ignoring the fear of death even.
Amrit, the sage, is sad at the state (13)
When anger rises
One forgets the deed, misdeed
And loses direction,
Amrit wishes the truth may prevail (14)
when the wave of greed rises in mind,
One loses sight of path
To fall in abyss ;
Ignores the nectar and consumes venom (15)
When the snare of affection spreads
One takes wealth, men, knowledge
And land as own and feels elevated,
Dies asserting never to get the stable ground ;
And the nectar of peace.
Amrit, the sage, feels sad. (16)
Fallen in trap of envious ways
Gives up the thought of good and evil,
Roams the eighty four cycles of birth
From body to body, never loving the SELF
His own. (17)
The sensual pleasures are the root of sorrow,
Declare so the sages knowledgeable.
Give them up and associate yourself with the saints of faith
Amrit, the saint, counsels the ignorant. (18)
You nourish the senses, feed them with pleasures
And long for peace ?
You put the fire off with fat -
Amrit deplores the gross absurdity (19)
One who Gives up pursuit of sensual perversity
Seeks refuge at the feet of GURU,
Lives in company of the sages divine,
He will be bestowed with the state immortality (20)
Abandon the joys, the senses provide,
Do no look for the streaks of hope ;
The knot of actions done in the past
Would loosen to sprout the spiritual bliss ;
So is the promise of the saint Amrit.(21)
All the pleasures the world offers
are transient and root of sorrow -
Woman and wealth - the strong and thorny
Are the source of anguish to all and ever (22)
Days pass in the search for food,
Nights pass in the sleep with family,
Amrit says the opportunity goes
and the breaths allotted thus exhaust (23)
They do not languish
Who do not long for honour,
For praise ; are free of greed and free of ego ;
The taste of tongue does not infatuate,
and lust for women does not entice them (24)
With the instructions of guru
Give up the lust for sensual pleasure
Dedicate yourself to the AJAPA - JAPA
Repeat the syllables soham-soham, Amrit says (25)
Restrained eating, speech restrained,
Remembering truth and lord,
Truthful dealings, observing celibacy
Whosoever does these, Amrit says, attains liberation (26)
You do not give up the lust for sex,
Labour the whole day for a few coins,
Hair on the head has turned grey,
Amrit asks, how would you attain your aims (27)
Amrit says, †I cry hoarse again and again,
Time is passing and you are wasting life -
In pursuits of transient pleasures, I caution
I warn, life is useless if not devoted to adoration of Lord. (28)
Offer yourself, at the feet of GURU
Sankara says, you will get then
The solid ground under the ocean,
That the worldly life is (29)