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GIVING UP LIFE OF ATTACHMENT

When we give up something from within and it does not come back to us, chances are that we didn’t need it. So, no regrets, no loss; if anything we have gained for that may have been an obstacle to our spiritual progress.

Learning detachment makes it easier to learn how to live with God, in God, for God, and by God’s laws. On face value, it seems contradictory; but when we plumb the depths of it, we realize what it truly is in spiritual sense. Spirituality forms an integral part of our lives irrespective of one’s religion to the extent that we all have a spiritual side. To understand it, to know it, and to live it is to live in a state of mental poverty of material desires and mental possessions. These mental possessions exist and persist because we have allowed them through our own notion of security, false sense of need for them for our survival. Yet true spiritual survival does not depend on anything in the outer world. Things of the outer world hold us in bondange through undue attachment. Unfortunately, we tend to define ourselves by identification with our material possessions. This creates fear because our dependency is on things of impermanent value. This fear influences how we conduct ourselves and how we relate to others. As a result our behaviors become shaped and dictated by our fears. This results in diminution of our latent divine character. Our lives become limited contrary Divine Spirit’s nature for us. Thus it behooves us to eradicate all self-imposed limitations in our life, eliminating inner bonds to this outer world of materiality. It is by giving up life of attachment from within that we awaken to an abundant spiritual life that encompasses all aspects of our lives and brings about true fulfillment beyond measure.