But it unconsciously searches for Bliss there. It does
not find Bliss but finds a counterfeit called joy instead.
Totally misled, it now starts hunting for joy, pleasure
and all that. The original urge came from the quest for
Bliss, but the end now being chased is the counterfeit.
The baby is now trapped, and remains in this trap as it
grows up and goes through the whole of life. Indeed this
happens life after life. That really is what rebirth is
all about.
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In short, one’s entire life is misspent searching
for Bliss in the wrong place. The mistake is not recognised.
Another birth is taken and the same mistake is made
all over again. And so on the cycle goes, seemingly
without an end. Indeed, that is what the Bhaja Govindam
that Swami often refers to is all about. In one of the
stanzas of Sage Adi Shankara that Baba often quotes,
the Sage laments:
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