II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

काम कहर असवार है सबको मारै धाय I
कोई एक हरिजन ऊबरा, जाके नाम सहाय II

We are all slaves to our senses, slaves to our own minds, conscious and subconscious. The reason why a criminal is a criminal is not because he desires to be one, but because he doesn't have his mind under control. He is forced to obey the dominant mandate of his own mind. He cannot help himself.
We see this in our own lives constantly. We are constantly doing things against the better side of our nature, and afterwards we scold ourselves for doing so and wonder what we could have been thinking of, how we could do such a thing! Yet again and again we do it, and again and again we suffer for it and scold ourselves. We are helpless.
We call ourselves free. Free! We, who cannot for a moment govern our own minds, cannot hold our minds on a subject, focus it on a point to the exclusion of everything else for a moment! Yet we call ourselves free. 
We cannot do as we know we ought to do even for a very short space of time. Some sense-desire will crop up, and immediately we obey it. Our conscience smites us for such weakness, but again and again we do it, we are always doing it. 
All the misery of the world is caused by this slavery to the senses. Our inability to rise above the sense-life -- the striving for physical pleasures -- is the cause of all the horrors and miseries in the world. The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, for ever -- rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.

"Kabir says, we are all slaves to our senses, bound by them. They play upon us, make fools of us all the time. The exception is only the one who keeps his mind engaged in Hari Nam, for he doesn't succumb to the ceaseless demands of the senses, being in the world but not of the world."

II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

II श्रीसद्गुरूचरणार्पणमस्तु II