Attachment, further discussion

[Guest guest]

Dear Seshmet,

Pranams. Sri Ramakrishna, in the Gospel, always gave the

parable of a nanny taking care of kids in a rich family. Even though

she refers to the house and the kids that she is taking care as

belonging to her, in her heart she knows that her real home and

family is in the village. In the same way, we should live with all,

father, mother, wife, kids etc. and give our full love and fulfill

our duties towards them. But deep in our hearts we should remember

that they don't belong to us and that we can call only GOD as our

own.

This is the ideal. Even if we can't reach it, as Swami

Vivekananda said, let's not bring down the ideal because we can't

reach it. It's a long way but surely we can reach it with the grace

of Divine Mother. When she can make a great poet (Kalidasa) out of

an illeterate person, can't she make us achieve this goal? Faith in

her name and faith in our Guru will surely make us achieve our goal.

 

Jai Sri Ramakrishna,

Prasad

 

_______

this one is hard for me attachment to understand how can anyone be

living an ordinary life going to work and living averagely not be

attached to something either their job, home, wife, kids something.

To me living in america not sure anyone here can be unattached to

something somehow. Not like we can go off in the woods like a ascetic

and live as a poor person on the streets. This has bothered me for a

long time that I had a pull to be an ascetic oor mystic what we use

to call them but to be completely unattached was something that was

hard to do here. How does one become non attached and still live a

normal life in American is my question. I do put my spiritual life

over anything even work. so everyday i meditate, pray do chanting etc

and reading spiritual books of some sort but do my daily everyday

grind of work and daily chores. Am i attached? yes i do feel so

especially to my financial security how does one get away from that.

I have trusted God to help me when we

almost became homeless before and things do work out i always thought

i had help there especially but going thru that mess it has made me

more financial cautious so pulling myself away is harder now than

before. So my main question is how do you become detached from these

attachments of just living ordinary life?

 

Seshmet