Attachment to something/someone is a feeling which is not paralleled by any other feeling which 1 can possibly get. No matter how much we try to escape from it, once into the loop of bondage, it is really difficult to come out of it.
'm finding it out almost every day now.... Bondage was one thing, i tot i shud avoid at all times, cos it leads to weakness on the long run.. and i din want to be weak, i wanted to be strong, so strong that i'd be like a water droplet on lotus leaf which is in contact with water, shines on it , but, is never attached to the leaf . what a life the water droplet leads, sometimes i envy that!
but inherantly, bondage has certain qualities, such as "MAYA" which makes it desireble , this fact we all shall accept without any room for a countering ...
we've seen from time ,immemorial tat MAYA , has disrupted even that penance of the greatest of the sages!! this is a very disturbing thing to kno , if u ask me... cos for a start, i'm trying to free myself frm bondage, as much as possible , at as small steps as possible.. but every day , its getting tougher and tougher..and i sometimes begin to doubt wheather is it not wrong to not have bondage?but i try to remind myself that, this doubt is nothing other than the MAYA !!
But, my friends.. with due respect to Bondfree life, i think we need to analyse wheather attachment or at outset, a genuine concern to a particular entity/person is called for or should be rejected ! should we weigh each situation we face in d same category? shud we use the same prejudice for all the stuff ?
for illustration , lets take an example .... If i'm very attached to a particular msg in my inbox , and by mistake i delete it... for atleast 2 days, i wont feel alrite and with false hope scan inbox twise each time wheather the msg has re appeared or not! lol
is this called for? ideally no!!
suppose, somebody abuses someone close to u, it could be anyone, ur friend relative anyone... u'll not able to bear the fact that someone jus spoke low of the person u love, u respect..... u feel like slapping that person, if not that u'll do as much as is diplomaticaly possible to protest !
is this right? ofcourse, would be majority's answer.. while a minority maintains to say that it woudnt matter much as it would not actually mean that ur loved one's are watever that the layman has jus spoken ... so even if u r close to a person, u shud not be shaken by someone criticising him... but the immediate counter will be , wat if the criticism is not called for and is intentional? then, the speakers will be short of answers... rite?
so, we gt to agree that sometimes, we gt to analyse wat is the situation and then think of the level of bondage we gt to display.... i guess!
next, we shall take a more serious situation.... wat if u go to a foreign country, a layman there is burning ur country's flag!
my god!! i cant imagine wat i'd have done....
what is this but a prime, very strong sence of Bondage !! and one which all appreciate ! one all shud have!
so , bondage is actually not a word which has same meaning in every case whr we interpret it...
it is only upto the prejudice of the person, as to the attachment is neccessary or could it be avoided.....
it is upto the subject and wat he stands to think at that moment and purely his decision.
