April 16th, 2010
Trying to Escape?
How crazy this man is being held aloft over the city by a big bunch of balloons! What does he want to accomplish by it? He has put his life in a very precarious condition. He could slip from the grip on the balloons or they could carry him up into the skies or crash into the roof tops. He has nothing to gain except becoming famous for doing a zany aeronautic trick, or by killing himself in the process. He is not adding to the knowledge of science or flying or anything usable.
The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that karmis waste their time in the day by working hard and at night by sex and sleep. Apparently they find time for other time wasters like flying over a city in a balloon.
Another view of this picture reveals that the city is decrepit, grimy and ugly. The man may be trying to escape. But there is little chance he can escape to a more favorable environment by riding on balloons. It is like the Greek myth of Icarus who tried to fly to the sun on wings of wax. As the wax wings melted when Icarus got too near the sun, this man’s balloons will pop as he encounters rough weather or gets tangled in trees or mountains. There is no escape from the material world by flimsy man made vehicles. The body is not meant to survive a trip to another world. Only by giving up the body and transmigrating by the law of karma can one escape living in a decrepit world and enter a heavenly world in a heavenly body.
Source:http://yellowsub.sdgonline.org/satsvarupa_goswami/trying-to-escape
Trying to Escape?
How crazy this man is being held aloft over the city by a big bunch of balloons! What does he want to accomplish by it? He has put his life in a very precarious condition. He could slip from the grip on the balloons or they could carry him up into the skies or crash into the roof tops. He has nothing to gain except becoming famous for doing a zany aeronautic trick, or by killing himself in the process. He is not adding to the knowledge of science or flying or anything usable.
The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that karmis waste their time in the day by working hard and at night by sex and sleep. Apparently they find time for other time wasters like flying over a city in a balloon.
Another view of this picture reveals that the city is decrepit, grimy and ugly. The man may be trying to escape. But there is little chance he can escape to a more favorable environment by riding on balloons. It is like the Greek myth of Icarus who tried to fly to the sun on wings of wax. As the wax wings melted when Icarus got too near the sun, this man’s balloons will pop as he encounters rough weather or gets tangled in trees or mountains. There is no escape from the material world by flimsy man made vehicles. The body is not meant to survive a trip to another world. Only by giving up the body and transmigrating by the law of karma can one escape living in a decrepit world and enter a heavenly world in a heavenly body.
Source:http://yellowsub.sdgonline.org/satsvarupa_goswami/trying-to-escape
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