PUJYA SHREE MOTA

Thursday, January 25, 2024

JIVA-NATURE — ATTACHMENT (આસક્તિ, AASAKTI) (2)

 Attachment stays within, in subtle or subtlest form. So human souls will keep on increasing attachments of things that can be enjoyed with the human senses. As a result they will gain nothing but misery. As mentioned earlier, attachment has vruttie to nourish and support subtle desires. For this reason human being spends whole life satisfying all kinds of desires and mostly he does not have any awareness about it. If we examine ourselves by going within, we will find that all our senses eyes, ears, skin, tongue etc., and not only that what we call ourselves in totality experiences sweetness in an unfathomable way in attachments. This sweetness is produced by senses and it is for their own enjoyment. So, till we make our senses without self-interest with efforts and change the direction of the habits, senses will keep on enjoying their own interest without any control. Many human beings are not even aware that their senses are busy enjoying in their own subject.

Senses have such tremendous interest in their objects that human beings do not think about misery that follows afterwards. Even if they think about it, they still cannot stop it. When our senses are attracted towards the activity that ordinarily we consider 'not good activity', senses know that it is not good activity because of our understanding, still the senses carry out the activity ignoring us. It is said in Gitaji (holy scripture) that happiness from the senses is Rajasik (out of passion) happiness and naturally results in misery.

When the Jiva performs the work with attachment, he gets restricted and bound by it. There is increasing suffocation, confusion and weariness. There is no limit to his worries, sorrows, afflictions, repentance and difficulties. He can never come out of it. What kind of happiness in this kind of experience of happiness of such a Jiva? He is not peaceful and comfortable even in his happiness.

Pujya Shree Mota

Jivan Yog, Part 1

Edition 1; Page 335 - 336.