3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

I0?'HE HOLY PATHfish-catchers put some eatable on the rod and the fish iscaught helplessly on the hook and serves as eatable.Deer is one of the most nimble-footed animals which canrarely be overtaken by a horse, but it has a weakness forhearing. The hunters go to the wood and beat the drumin such an enchanting manner that unaware the deer isirresistably driven near, and places its head on the drumand loses its freedom for lifetime. Elephant is one of themightiest creatures but it has the weakness of lust whichprovides for a not very difficult way of capturing it bydigging deep pits in the jungle and covering them withgrass and bushes. An artificial she-elephant like a decoyis placed over it. The lustful animal rushes towards it andis thrown into the deep well, where it is kept for severaldays hungry and thirsty. When it is taken out it is so weakand feeble that it is put under the iron goad for the entirelife. From all this, it is pretty clear that the soulswhich are considered as bound in lower forms of creationare so much over-powered by one sense, where lies thesafety of human souls who are endlessly enticed by all thefive powerful scnses of sight, smell, sound, taste, andtouch. By sheer habit, it has become mired, roaming theworld over like a wild elephant in a forest. Feeding faton the lusts of the flesh, from moment to moment, it hasgrown out of all proportions. The spiritual disciplines areirksome and galling to it for they impose serious restraintson its free movement. This is why the mind does not relishany discipline, and plays all kinds of tricks to evadethem, posing at times, as an honest broker pleading onbehalf of our friends and relations and whispering ser-