Guest guest Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Jai Sai Ram, I got the quotes below from another and I thought of sharing it. It reminds me of that chapter of Shri Sai Satcharita where a person leaves everything and goes to Shirdi...Then he gets the news that his mother has fallen sick and he feels very sad...Baba questions his purpose of his coming there after renouncing everything when he has still not renounced " Attachment " . Jai Sai Ram ---------------- ATTACHMENT IS BLINDINGCompassion is a noble quality. There is a great deal of difference between daya, compassion, and maya, attachment. Daya is good, but maya is not. Maya is love for one's relatives—one's wife, children, brother, sister, nephew, father, and mother. But daya is the same love for all created beings without any distinction.(Ramakrishna, `The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna')Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. (Swami Sri Yukteswar, in `Autobiography of a Yogi')No soul can rest until it is detached from all creation. When it is deliberately so detached for love of him who is all, then only can it experience spiritual rest.(Julian of Norwich, `Revelations of Divine Love') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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