पराचः कामाननुयन्ति बालास्ते
मृत्योर्यन्ति विततस्य पाशम् ।
अथ धीरा अमृतत्वं विदित्वा
ध्रुवमध्रुवेष्विह न प्रार्थयन्ते॥ २
PARACHAHA KAMAN ANUYANTI BALASTE
MRUTYORYANTI VITATASHY PASHAM|
ATHA GHIRA AMRUTATVAM VIDITWA
DHRUVAM ADHRUVESHU IHA NA PRARTHAYANTE ||2
(SOME) WITH CHILD LIKE BEHAVIOUR ENJOY EXTERNAL PLEASURES AND FELL IN
THE WIDE-SPREAD NET OFTHE DEATH WHILE THOSE WHO ARE WISE
HAVING KNOWN WHAT IS IMMORTAL AMONG MORTAL WORLD,
DO NOT DESIRE (SUCH EXTERNAL PLEASURES)||2
The Shlok is telling us the same thing that we knew and have been told in past or previous Shlok. The Lord of Death is calling adults children as their behavior is childlike . The child has to be told not to eat too much sweets and he or she is more interested in what tastes good and what gives him the pleasers and not worried about long term effects of such behavior . The vegetables don.t taste as good as Donuts or ice cream and so the children would indulge in eating what is not good and succumb to the problems associated with such actions .But the actions of the grown up men is similar when they indulge in such actions which are directed by sense pleasers. When one looks at the source of the pleasers it is not external but it is internal. If the source of the happiness is external then all sorts of music or all sorts of food should give equal happiness to everyone . But not everyone enjoys rap music or classical music or opera . Not all human beings enjoy beef. So the happiness is in mind and not in external sources . If act of sex was producing happiness then rape would also be giving happiness but it does not . So the source of happiness is INTERNAL or is in MIND . But we tend to associate the happiness to external source. We are told that such a behavior is child like If you take a child to toy store, he will want everything and the playing with a toy is transient as all parents have observed . After few days the same toy that child was playing all the time is left in some corner and now child wants different one. We adults are like KASIM in the old story of Alibaba and 40 thrives. Kasim - Alibaba's brother when he went in a cave and saw all the gold and diamonds, he forgot everything and got trapped - forgot the code word to get out . We have also forgotten the code word to get of this MORTAL WORLD. So we are told that the wise do not desire anything in this mortal world and so they keep their goal on immortality and do not indulge in sense organ pleasures and that is the way to not get trapped by the DEATH.
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