Who will like to go jail? Even for a day visit no one will agree. Recently a lady who was the candidate for the post of CM was arrested for involvement in frauds and corruption. She have been sentenced with 4 years of jail. When the police arrived to take her out of fear she rejected to sit in van and preferred to walk till jail. She demanded private barrack, home food, packaged drinking water and an internet connection but Supreme Court rejected her demands, instead engaged her in hard labour which she never did in her life.
Jail is the important part of any country or nation. It is meant to keep laws of government intact, if someone breaks the laws he is put behind the bars as a punishment. There their independence is checked, they can't go outside, they can't eat whatever they want they get simplest thing to eat, they have to wear given clothes. Their interactions with others are restricted. Prisoners has to work hard for less money. They have to do many things which they have never did or thought. No facilities at all. Miserable life isn't it?
Still there is a jail or prison where everyone wants to go and stay for long period. Where is this prison? According to scriptures and saints this material world, in which we are living is similar to jail. How? Just check our daily lives our independence is restricted, we are controlled by modes which moves us as they want. Durga Devi is superintendent of jail, she makes sure that we are undergoing different kinds of suffering . Although this jail doesn't have any bars or big compound walls but still no one can easily escape from it. Why? People here are not shackled by iron chains or ropes but with the chains of desires and attachment. Those who break the law of God they are put in this jail. Peculiarity of this jail is that although suffering miserably one keeps hoping for pleasure and doesn't want to come out. Conditioned by prison from long time we have forgotten about the real world(Vaikuntha) which offers us unlimited bliss, facilities to enjoy and express love and anxiety free life.
Actually we all were associated with Lord in spiritual world but we wanted to enjoy independently forgetting God, thus to fulfil our desires He created this world. Dictionary meaning of prison is, a correctional institution where person are confined for punishment. So the primary purpose of material world is to correct us, to correct and reform our attitude. The best thing about this jail is that the Supreme Court, the supreme Lord wants us freed as soon as possible and He helps us for the same in so many ways, actually He Himself stays with us as super soul till we leave this jail. But the problem lies in us, we are holding the prison house tightly. When we abandon all the shackles of desire for sense enjoyment we will be freed immediately to entere our original home.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by ISKCON Desire Tree
www.iskcondesiretree.com
Jail is the important part of any country or nation. It is meant to keep laws of government intact, if someone breaks the laws he is put behind the bars as a punishment. There their independence is checked, they can't go outside, they can't eat whatever they want they get simplest thing to eat, they have to wear given clothes. Their interactions with others are restricted. Prisoners has to work hard for less money. They have to do many things which they have never did or thought. No facilities at all. Miserable life isn't it?
Still there is a jail or prison where everyone wants to go and stay for long period. Where is this prison? According to scriptures and saints this material world, in which we are living is similar to jail. How? Just check our daily lives our independence is restricted, we are controlled by modes which moves us as they want. Durga Devi is superintendent of jail, she makes sure that we are undergoing different kinds of suffering . Although this jail doesn't have any bars or big compound walls but still no one can easily escape from it. Why? People here are not shackled by iron chains or ropes but with the chains of desires and attachment. Those who break the law of God they are put in this jail. Peculiarity of this jail is that although suffering miserably one keeps hoping for pleasure and doesn't want to come out. Conditioned by prison from long time we have forgotten about the real world(Vaikuntha) which offers us unlimited bliss, facilities to enjoy and express love and anxiety free life.
Actually we all were associated with Lord in spiritual world but we wanted to enjoy independently forgetting God, thus to fulfil our desires He created this world. Dictionary meaning of prison is, a correctional institution where person are confined for punishment. So the primary purpose of material world is to correct us, to correct and reform our attitude. The best thing about this jail is that the Supreme Court, the supreme Lord wants us freed as soon as possible and He helps us for the same in so many ways, actually He Himself stays with us as super soul till we leave this jail. But the problem lies in us, we are holding the prison house tightly. When we abandon all the shackles of desire for sense enjoyment we will be freed immediately to entere our original home.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by ISKCON Desire Tree
www.iskcondesiretree.com
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