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ATTACHMENT
AND NON- ATTACHMENT – Part III (Last Part)
(Article # : DRSAUSA_July2006)
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About attachment and non- attachment, we may get number of books with advice, idea and full of information for gathering knowledge that do not solve the actual problem for detachment. In Hindi language, it is called as Lagao and Onlagao [Akarshan and Nirakarshan]. In Gita Lord Krishna explained to Arjuna as " Niskama Karma" means do the work without any attachment rather not for the fruit of the work.
Nature or the Infinite has prescribed for each soul according to its capacity to perform the worldly duties with different type of coverings consists of blood, flesh and a heart. The difficulty started after getting the mind and intellect. Then the each body starts with different and in-different attitudes of like and dislike, favor and un-favor, wishes and want, temptation and attraction, anger and burst, friction and tension, expectation and failure, emotion and repulsion, affection and estrangement along with the main obstacle of ego and so many.
Now for example a soul is allotted to perform various works like worship for the mass, some souls are assigned to save the mankind for the betterment with medication, some as a teacher, and some for the pious work for the society. In the same way, Nature or God has designated a soul as father and mother to look after the children, wife, husband, money and property etc or in short to perform the duties of the Nature. The trouble shoots over there due to attachment even though nothing is anyone's but for a very short period.
The covered soul starts thinking that it is my creation and my sole property and that is the reason why; it is acute, urgent and necessary, must, impossible and the body cannot resist. Now the result is; finally the soul falls in Maya or in attachment. It is well known to each body that every thing will remain over here even his physical body.
Knowledge, ego and attachment fail totally over here to alert for the real knowledge. Then the coverings and grossness starts round the soul automatically due to un-due attachment for the temporary things of the world. Actually the soul has go back to its native place, homeland or the source from where it has come from. In others sense, tomorrow it will be merging with it source or with Eternal soul which the jivatma fails or is not ready to believe the truth of Reality.
Saints have rightly pointed out that a jivatma got a body, mind and intellect to understand that it is his last birth as a human body so it's soul has to be unionized with it's original form or to merge with the Ultimate tomorrow. But, it becomes a great barrier with a body, mind and intellect for the activities assigned to it by God or nature. Now, the way out is, if we think that as we are working in an office where we are assigned to do our office work correctly and perfectly but anything of the office is not mine. After office work, we go back to our home forgetting everything of the office and some times we get fade up with the office work also. Now a priest will pray to God, a doctor will treat a patient, a religious man will create love, peace and harmony for humanities and a father and mother with a house to look after and to bring up the children and so on.
As explained earlier, the un-due attachment [akarshan] create a crude form or shield of grossness or coverings round the soul which forced for the Re-birth as a big priest, a famous doctor, saint or as a creature, so it is natural that we are root of all cause and we should not ask God or we should not blame any body. There are many examples in our mythology such as King Jarbharata who was a saint and in the next birth he became a dear for the attachment. So instead of detachment from the worldly things, the attachment of the temporary things, which will remain over here, becomes more essential, indispensable, fundamental, basic, important, critical, imperative, obligatory, intrinsic, vital, life and death, compulsory and compelling in the day-to-day life. The obstacles are due to the body, mind and intellect, which create the affection or the attachment and brings forth rebirth for the soul again and again.
Saint Sankaracharya rightly pointed out about it, in his Moha- Mudgar as " Punarapi Jananam, Punarapi Janani Jathare Sayanam" Why to take birth again and again in mother's womb? What is the guarantee that we will get a human form in our next birth? So the way out is Non-Attachment and to get attached with God of Eternity. If the internal calmness is achieved then the all problems are getting solved. The activities of mind such as desire, affection and ego remains as before even though the jivatma or the seeker goes through many religious books, listening spiritual lectures, songs, chanting of hymn or mantras etc and etc. It is also a general tendency of each body is to accumulate knowledge; information, to create a situation of pleasantness or peace [manoranjan] for his senses or at the most, it tries to tame the mind through some means.
The real purpose of the spiritual training is that in a jivatma or in a seeker, the Godly attributes should imbibe in a natural process. If it is not achieved, then any process, systems, lectures, books, prayer or any thing is of no avail. The molding of body, mind and intellect must be internally but not possible with any means of externally like education, information or by some other process and that too, it should be by a natural process only. In other word we may say that the changes should come automatically from WITHIN. The moderation of mind with the exercises of all senses and faculties can bring the necessary changes. Then the real lover of God will be able to understand gradually or when the desk of entrance i.e, heart is getting moderated. The ways and means to come out from rebirth and for the moderation of heart; is to sit at a place with cum and quite manner; closing the eyes and forgetting the body, mind and intellect and even the whole world by Yoga means getting connected with God, not by the process of modern type of meditation. It is an old process of Saint Patanjali's Astanga Yoga. [For details about it, there will be another article, which will be only informative]. We may start from Dharana, Dhyana and slowly to the stage of Samadhi. Dharana means supposition. ' There is a divine power or light in my heart'. Dhyana means a feeling or attention, closing eyes in deep meditation, forgetting every thing of the world even the existence of self. Slowly by regular practice, [practice makes a man perfect] the stage of Samadhi will come naturally.
About Sadhan-chatusthaya means the development or progress through Sadhana. [We will have a separate article in which " Vivek and Vairagnya" is the first two steps]. It is said by saints that in 21 st century, penance or austerity is not suitable. God is simple and the process to realize [receptivity, Anubhooti or Upalavdhi] God should also be simple for all. It is also true by a natural process a soul can achieve natural power. Actually a soul needs to merge with Ultimate and the human tendency is also like that. An American writer has written about God-Gene means in every Gin there is a natural inquisitiveness. He has given an example of a child immediately after birth; the child starts sucking mother breast for milk, which is a natural intuition of the mankind. In the same way a soul too is in search of its source. No doubt all soul will merge with Eternal soul after the dissolution of the whole world. A River meets the Sea or its source so we may say that a soul needs to meet it source even after getting the formation or coverage. It will be tomorrow after the dissolution of the body. But it is also proved by so many pious souls with coverage of a body that a common man too can also remain in a merging condition with God by Sadhana [Yoga or meditation] and not by Aradhana or stuti [flattering of God for want]. Ruhi Das, Eknath was a most common man and there were many through out the India and world. |
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