MS ON ALLUREMENT TO SENSUAL PLEASURES

• MS ON ALLUREMENT TO SENSUAL PLEASURES
• A wise man should strive to restrain his organs which run wild among alluring sensual objects, like a charioteer his horses(MS: 2.88).
• Know that the internal organ (manas) has been subdued, both those (two) sets of five (external organs) have been conquered. (MS2.92).
• Through the attachment of his organs (to sensual pleasure) a man doubtlessly will incur guilt; but if he keep them under complete control, he will obtain success (in gaining all his aims).(2.93.)
• Desire is never extinguished by the enjoyment of desired objects; it only grows stronger like a fire (fed) with clarified butter (2.94).
• If one man should obtain all those (sensual enjoyments) and another should renounce them all, the renunciation of all pleasure is far better than the attainment of them.(2.95)
• Those (organs) which are strongly attached to sensual pleasures, cannot so effectually be restrained by abstinence (from enjoyments) as by a constant (pursuit of true) knowledge (2.96).
• Neither (the study of) the Vedas, nor liberality, nor sacrifices, nor any (self- imposed) restraint, nor austerities, ever procure the attainment (of rewards) to a man whose heart is contaminated (by sensuality)(2.97).
• If he keeps all the (ten) organs as well as the mind in subjection, he may gain all his aims, without reducing his body by (the practice) of Yoga (2.100).
• But when one among all the organs slips away (from control), thereby (man's) wisdom slips away from him, even as the water (flows) through the one (open) foot of a (water-carrier's) skin(2.99).
• He who desires happiness must strive after a perfectly contented disposition and control himself; for happiness has contentment for its root, the root of unhappiness is the contrary (disposition)(MS 4.12).
• Let him not, out of desire (for enjoyments), attach himself to any sensual pleasures, and let him carefully obviate an excessive attachment to them, by (reflecting on their worthlessness in) his heart (MS:4.16).
• That man may be considered to have (really) subdued his organs, who on hearing and touching and seeing, on tasting and smelling (anything) neither rejoices nor repines.(MS:2.98).
• In consequence of attachment to (the objects of) the senses, and in consequence of the non-performance of their duties, fools, the lowest of men, reach the vilest births ( MS: 12. 52).
• Coveting the property of others, thinking in one's heart of what is undesirable, and adherence to false (doctrines), are the three kinds of (sinful) mental actions (12.5).
• Abusing (others, speaking) untruth, detracting from the merits of all men, and talking idly, shall be the four kinds of (evil) verbal action.(MS12.6).
• Taking what has not been given, injuring (creatures) without the sanction of the law, and holding criminal intercourse with another man's wife, are declared to be the three kinds of (wicked) bodily actions ( MS12.7).
• (A man) obtains (the result of) a good or evil mental (act) in his mind, (that of) a verbal (act) in his speech, (that of) a bodily (act) in his body (MS 12.8).

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