Attach without attachment must be the way to go

Vedanta says the more you attach to your possessions, the more you will be burdened with grief and sorrow. Attachment is like an illusion; it increases your appetite, you ask for more and more, but you never get satisfied. Have you ever thought what is wrong, if you possess enough in your life? If you have an abundance of wealth, name, fame, manpower and status quo in society, there is nothing wrong in your possession for the same.  But no sooner, you get attached or addicted to the said things and you are not able to survive without the same, then you swirl in the twirl of different types of pains, since  you are not able to satisfy your desire. You become sick, you become greedy and sometimes, you also envy others wealth, despite you have everything. This is only the catch and loopholes of attachment. Many a times, people  disagree with this concept and not interested to show whatsoever  feeling of detachment to their  possessions. In this process, they misconstrue the teachings enunciated in the Vedanta. Vedanta only advocates that you must not show greedy of your possessions.  If you introspect some of the concepts that laid down there, you will find the reference of homeless and dispossessed. Many people have left their home and all their possessions to get mokhs after being attached to the religious fervor.  Vedanta does not say that you should follow the same principle, because it is a personal choice, which path to follow in life for complete Margyadarshan. One must understand that possession is a physical entity and so, these teachings of Vedanta should not mean you become a monk living everything. You should not ignore the responsibilities connected with daily living. You may be the king of the world and everything may be under your disposal, but still, you can be aloof and remain free from the concept of mine and  refrain yourself  from bragging the word of “myself.”

Vedanta teaches us renunciation and non-attachment.  You should not show your greed for the things you possess. Once you become avarice for your possession, you cannot come out from the mental bondage and you will be more addicted to your possession.  This is known as a mental frame of addiction towards your belongings and it is not a physical state.  You have to renounce your dependence, attachment and acquisitiveness. You must understand the difference between the possession and the possessiveness. You may be a very wealthy person, have worth of millions of assets and you have comforts of every materialistic entity, but you don’t have any addiction for all these, then you are a man showing non-attachment to all those  attachment.

Passion for possession is known as your excessive zeal to acquire, possess and dominate.  Ultimately, this leads to the slavery of bondage and you lose your characteristic freedom.  You show the frailties in front of your desires of possession of various things. You need to get rid of these desires of possession. It evolves from dependence and it lacks self-sufficiency.  All the symptoms related to fear, frustration, quarrel, anxieties and suspicion arise from this possessiveness. Then, you face many failures. All these failures are the root cause of emptiness, incompleteness and deficiency. The basic reason is that, you are too occupied with your own self and you are damn busy with your own identify only. 

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Vedanta always says that you should be completely satisfied with the things what you have in your possession and you must have no regret in your life. But you are not aware of this fact, because you are ignorant of the basic principles of an ideal living. Your inability to find out your completeness is your fault. You create a void. Desire arises in your mind to acquire and possess various materialistic things to fill this void.  When your desire is fulfilled, you become elated. When desire is obstructed and denied from you, you become gloomy. Vedanta provides you knowledge of fullness. Once you experience this fullness, you are free from any desire. Then you are not dependent on this world. Vedanta prescribes the techniques how  to get along with all the allurement laid down in the world without any attachment so that you are comfortable at any stage in your life.  Vedanta teaches you to gain the world, have its exposure, feel its glamour, but not to be attached to it.

You have to search the turning point within yourself and be aware of the same.  This self- awareness is the main cause for your successful life.  This also provides you a sensibility, willing to learn, understand the meaning of good and religious ways of life and intellect.  If you ignore all these things, you are not in the perfect mode of life.  You have to get rid of negative characteristics like jealousy, envy and your getting engaged to criticize people and their deeds. You should not show be meanness and also should not be much occupied with your own self. These will not allow you to inspire with a higher vision. You must follow the 3D principles in life, which are the ideal deeds, devotion and detachment. You must perform all your duties in the name of spirit and show your sincerity to those particular work and service and sacrifice for a higher goal. Your attitude must be always to give and not to take. In the name of devotion, one should not feel the same only as love and respect for God. It is the love for your family members, neighbors, friends and acquaintances. You must avoid hatred, animosity and feeling of competitiveness.  One who can follow these, are definitely near and dear to God.

Another expectation is discrimination, which is the way to go in the right direction in life.  This discrimination is nothing, but the depth of your knowledge. The more knowledge you acquire, the more will be your power of observation and the ability to identify. This knowledge is the magic wand of your success in life. And, you  can help others with the distribution of this knowledge to their benefits. Your accumulated knowledge when you start distributing, you become further knowledgeable. Your knowledge will make you mentally strong and stubborn, so that most of the so called sufferings will not make you vulnerable. In this way, you reach  the centre of the wheel of life. Then, you will gain mastery over everything you do, you see and you listen. The worldly things, no doubt, will occupy the rim and make you ponder to get addicted to the same, but you have to exercise your willpower so that you get detached from those allurement. Needless to say, the objects of attachment will move and spin ceaselessly around you and make you greedy, but through your power of  sacred deeds, devotion and detachment, you have to provide the motion to the life wheel taking the balance of the same in your hand. You must project and position  yourself in its centre.