When Thamas increases, it causes desires, as Rajas increases, it causes pleasure and as Sathwa increases, it causes joy.  Puranjana’s ‘hen-pecked’ nature represents the way our mind behaves as our Budhi wanders along with the senses.

We forget our true nature of detachment and get entangled in the web of sensory experiences.

(Bhagavatham 4.25.44 – 4.25.62)

Dear Devotee,

Many of us live like Puranjana – blindly following wherever our senses go. Everyone knows that smoking or drinking is injurious to health, then why can’t people stay away from such bad habits?

The impressions of such sensory experiences are so strong that we become slaves to them. Power of discrimination is lost and people live in mental slums. Even a King can not escape from its clutches unless he has awareness and alertness about his own mind.

Spirituality is all about developing more and more awareness and alertness in life.

HariOm!