any machine for our comfort like washing machine, fridge, etc), we choose the one with long durability. Remember, if we are given a choice to choose between two things (e.g. They give up the joys of lower nature for the sake of the highest bliss of the Self. Thats why wise ones/ viveki stop pursuing worldly objects/ goals. Once viveka is cultivated, we come to know that the Self is the only Sat/ Eternal truth and rest of the worldly things and joys are only ephemeral and pain ridden and with this wisdom detachment for those worldly things and joys comes automatically. It is the power of discrimination between Sat and Asat ( सत् & असत्)… Self and Not Self… Eternal and Ephemeral. Thats is why the 1st prerequisite for the self-knowldge is the ‘viveka’. When you realise the ephemeral nature of the worldly happiness naturally you want to seek the eternal source of happiness. ![]() Same principle is applied to achieve the ultimate goal of our human life. Otherwise, total detachment is impossible and one can restart indulging in the same habit of drinking. Thus the detachment/ giving up/ dispassion / renunciation is automatic or spontaneous if it comes out of intellectual inquiry. He will refuse to drink even if someone offers him the alcohol. ![]() He will not crave or desire for alcohol anymore. This disgust and disinterest in alcohol makes him give up the habit of drinking alcohol. When he applies his intellect, and understands the harmful effects of the alcohol ( personal and social), he develops the disgust for alcohol. If he stops drinking but continue to think about drinks, it is not the true giving up or renunciation. It is the internal process.Īlcoholic is very much attached to the alcohol ( drinking habit). Renunciation is not giving up things and beings and places externaly. That means if you want to get worldly success ( dharma, artha, kaam), you have to acquire the way of giving up the lower stages/ lower goals to achieve the higher goals. Renunciation is the very important factor for the success in worldly as well as spiritual path. In spiritual domain, this ‘giving up’ is called the ‘renunciation’. There is no growth or progress in life if you don’t want to give up something which is hindrance to your growth. If you want to climb up the higher step of the ladder but don’t want to leave the lower step, we get stucked at one place. Those who don’t apply the intellect and follow only mind, they get stucked at one place. We find many such live examples, which helps us understand that, to get the higher things ( as per our view), we have to leave/ give up the lower things and this giving up is only possible only when our intellect logically proves the benefits of those higher things. ![]() This is possible because she finds new priorities for her life. Thus too much attached ones can be detached if they find the new things more valuable than the things they were attached to.Ī girl leaves her parents house once she gets married. One who wants to pursue a cureer in other developed country, is ready to leave his family and friends in this country. To climb the higher steps of the staircase, we have to leave the lower steps and we do it at ease because our priority is for the higher steps. This is the reason why did we give up those toys at ease physically as well as mentally. But now, same toys became less valuable before our new priorities of life, like education, cureer, relationships, etc. Those toys were valuable for us in our childhood. Thus detachment for the toys came out of our intellectual thinking. ![]() You are no more interested in those toys now. So although you must be having some of those childhood toys with you, you don’t play with them as before. Wishing this and that and getting attached to them.īut now, as our intellect has developed well, we understood that those toys are not important for our future growth anymore. We used to even cry for our lost or broken toys.īut now, we are no more attached to those toys, as we have grown up and developed attachments to the new things.īecause in the childhood, we were following only our monkey mind. In our childhood, we were very much attached to our toys those colourful wooden utensils, dolls, balls, vehicles, etc.
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