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are you overly attached?
Published Jul. 3, 2008
The Greatest Lesson ~ Amma
Q: Amma, what is the greatest lesson that one needs to learn in life?
A: Be attached to the world with a detached attitude..
Q: How can attachment and detachment go together?
A: Attach and detach as you wish - act, then let go and move forward. Extra luggage will make your journey uncomfortable, right? Likewise, the extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey extremely miserable..
Even great emperors, dictators and rulers suffer horribly at the end of their lives due to carrying such extra luggage in life. Nothing but the art of detachment will help you to be in a restful state of mind at that time..
Alexander was a great warrior and ruler who had conquered nearly one-third of the world. He wanted to become emporor of the entire world, but he was defeated in battle and fell sick with a terminal illness. A few days before his death, Alexander called his ministers and explained to them how he wanted to be buried. He told them he wanted openings made on both sides of his coffin, through which his arms should be kept hanging out with the palms turned up. The ministers asked him why he wanted this to be done. Alexander replied that, in this way, everyone would come to know that the great Alexander, who had strived his whole life to possess and conquer the world, had left it totally empty-handed. He had not even taken his own body with him. Therefore, they would understand how futile it is to spend one's whole life chasing after the world and its objects..
After all, in the end we cannot take anything with us, not even our own body... So, what is the use of feeling overly attached?
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