What
he intended must therefore be to warn us well ahead so that we can steer clear
of such desires and aspirations. Just as all rivers fall and get absorbed into
the sea, so also all desires should get absorbed in oneself, never to rise up
again - says the Gita.
That is the kind
of shAnti, Peace, that our Acharya
would have advocated. It is the captivation by oneself of all desires and the
absorption of all of them into oneself that the Acharya must have meant by the
power of ‘vashyaM’, meaning, ‘captivation into
submission’.
(Continued...)
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