Attachment and non-attachment - an excellent analogy

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advaitin, "Ram Chandran" <rchandran@c...>

wrote:

> Namaste Profvk:

>

> I enjoy reading mathematical method of making coffee precisely!

>

> Ram Chandran

>

> Note: in the paragraph below there is a typo - in the last

sentence,

> it should have been "Simply Remove #3" instead of "Simply Remove

#2"

>

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Namaste, Ramji and others

 

Thank you, Ram, for the correction!

I want to say that my error is an excellent example of

what 'attachment' means and why it is wrong. Students usually ask

me "What is wrong with attachment? If you are not attached to your

work, then you cannot do it perfectly" . Here is a correct non-

trivial example.

Obviously I was so much excited (and therefore attached to) about my

coffee analogy that I made the mistake. This is exactly what happens

in all attachments. We are attached to the object of our interest at

the moment, we have wonderful expectations about its results (-- in

this case, I must have thought about how people would jump at the

analogy --), we are immersed in it to the extent that we forget that

it is only a local event in a global panorama (-- in this case I

must have forgotten that the issue is the removal of the non-self

whereas I only thought about the aptness of the analogy), we claim

our 'proprietorship' to our object of attachment, maybe a friend,

relative, or spouse or a material possession (in this case, it must

have been my sense of elation at the thought of an 'original' idea!)

...... and so on, it goes.

That is the havoc that 'attachment' can do!

 

praNAms to all advaitins

profvk

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Dear Respected Prof VK Ji:

 

This reminds me of "HOMA".

 

As you know in every homa there is an expression "svaaahaa". It is

used in sense to imply renuncation of the ego, svatvahavanaa.

 

Yaaska explains the "svatvahavanaa" as:

 

su aahaa iti vaa

svaa vaag aaheti vaa

svam paheti vaa

svahuta.m havir juhoti iti vaa .. niruktaa VIII. 21 ..

 

All this is is jeevan yadnya a constant oblations of purification

process. It is up to us to realize it and assimilate the end

product, even that is for sharing with every body.

 

To keep off the attachments on declares (not jusu says to himself)

idam na mama.

 

With best regards to all the knowledgable folks.

 

Dr. Yadu

advaitin, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk>

wrote:

> advaitin, "Ram Chandran" <rchandran@c...>

> wrote:

> > Namaste Profvk:

> >

> > I enjoy reading mathematical method of making coffee precisely!

> >

> > Ram Chandran

> >

> > Note: in the paragraph below there is a typo - in the last

> sentence,

> > it should have been "Simply Remove #3" instead of "Simply Remove

> #2"

> >

> -----------------------------

>

> Namaste, Ramji and others

>

> Thank you, Ram, for the correction!

> I want to say that my error is an excellent example of

> what 'attachment' means and why it is wrong. Students usually ask

> me "What is wrong with attachment? If you are not attached to your

> work, then you cannot do it perfectly" . Here is a correct non-

> trivial example.

> Obviously I was so much excited (and therefore attached to) about

my

> coffee analogy that I made the mistake. This is exactly what

happens

> in all attachments. We are attached to the object of our interest

at

> the moment, we have wonderful expectations about its results (-- in

> this case, I must have thought about how people would jump at the

> analogy --), we are immersed in it to the extent that we forget

that

> it is only a local event in a global panorama (-- in this case I

> must have forgotten that the issue is the removal of the non-self

> whereas I only thought about the aptness of the analogy), we claim

> our 'proprietorship' to our object of attachment, maybe a friend,

> relative, or spouse or a material possession (in this case, it must

> have been my sense of elation at the thought of an 'original' idea!)

> ..... and so on, it goes.

> That is the havoc that 'attachment' can do!

>

> praNAms to all advaitins

> profvk