I can never forget that scene while traveling in ac coach of train, during night I saw one middle aged but kind of rich person locked his all suitcases properly and took his old floaters with him to upper seat and slept with it keeping them under his head as pillow. They provide pillow in ac coach but he kept own chappals as pillow, I was wondering why? Then realised, he was fearful that someone may steal it(he was attached to his broken chappals). The same chappals which were used for going to public toilets hundreds of times, he kept under his head. This nature of attachment, which is not worthy we give importance to it.
People are so attached to their things, their own body, family, money, property, possession but they forgets one day it's all going to be taken away by time. Those who are attached more they suffer more when the things to which they are attached most are taken away, there is no sanity in being overly attached to temporary things of the world. Buddha says,"to be free from suffering means to be free from attachments".
There are material attachments and spiritual attachments, spiritual attachments makes us free from materials. But material attachments bounds us to this material world. There are many stories in scriptures given to illustrate this point. King Bharat became very attached to deer and due to that he took birth as deer, Prabhupad would also tell the story of person who was too attached to his house and after death he took birth near house as snake to protect the house, but his own sons of last life killed him thinking he will bite us.
Lord speaks in Gita(2.62),"While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises". And consequences of anger is always dangerous, one eventually looses the intelligence and again comes to material world, so it's all starts with contemplation and attachment. We have to be very careful and be detached, detachment doesn't mean start hating, it means to understand to whom everything belongs(God) and take care of those things as caretaker and use as a proprietor. Tenant always knows that home doesn't belong to me so even home is taken away he is not so miserable but if tenant is thinking I am the owner of flat and when home is taken away that pain is really greater. Attachment to the God creates real detachment. So in conclusion when we want to walk ahead we have to leave behind the earth where we stand, similarly if we want to progress in spiritual lives we have to leave behind lower attachments which binds us!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
People are so attached to their things, their own body, family, money, property, possession but they forgets one day it's all going to be taken away by time. Those who are attached more they suffer more when the things to which they are attached most are taken away, there is no sanity in being overly attached to temporary things of the world. Buddha says,"to be free from suffering means to be free from attachments".
There are material attachments and spiritual attachments, spiritual attachments makes us free from materials. But material attachments bounds us to this material world. There are many stories in scriptures given to illustrate this point. King Bharat became very attached to deer and due to that he took birth as deer, Prabhupad would also tell the story of person who was too attached to his house and after death he took birth near house as snake to protect the house, but his own sons of last life killed him thinking he will bite us.
Lord speaks in Gita(2.62),"While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises". And consequences of anger is always dangerous, one eventually looses the intelligence and again comes to material world, so it's all starts with contemplation and attachment. We have to be very careful and be detached, detachment doesn't mean start hating, it means to understand to whom everything belongs(God) and take care of those things as caretaker and use as a proprietor. Tenant always knows that home doesn't belong to me so even home is taken away he is not so miserable but if tenant is thinking I am the owner of flat and when home is taken away that pain is really greater. Attachment to the God creates real detachment. So in conclusion when we want to walk ahead we have to leave behind the earth where we stand, similarly if we want to progress in spiritual lives we have to leave behind lower attachments which binds us!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
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