The Gita again and
again emphasizes that one
should cultivate an attitude of non-attachment
or detachment. It urges repeatedly that an individual should live in the world
like water on a lotus leaf. “He who does actions, offering them to Brahman and
abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin as a lotus leaf by water”.
Attachment is due to infatuation. It is the offspring of the
quality of Rajas. Detachment is born of Sattwa. The former is a demoniacal
attribute, the latter a divine one. Attachment is born of ignorance,
selfishness and passion and brings with it death; detachment is wisdom and
brings with it freedom. The practice of detachment is a rigorous discipline.
You may stumble like a baby who is just learning to walk, but you will have to
rise up again with a cheerful heart. Failures are not stumbling-blocks but
steppingstones to success.
Try to dwell always in your own Self. Abide in your centre.
Think of the Self constantly. Then all attachments will die automatically.
Attachment to the Lord is a potent antidote to annihilate all worldly
attachments. He who has no attachments can really love others, for his love is
pure and divine. “Therefore, without attachment do thou always perform action
which should be done; for, by performing action without attachment man reaches
the Supreme”.
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