How Lord Krishna teaches the message of detachment -2
It's result would be chaotic
This would result in chaos in the world, and everywhere confusion would prevail. On the stage of this world, we have to discourage bad and hail the good. Moreover, due to the ego that one has renounced its fruits of actions, one would lose the discrimination power of good and bad, which is impractical—while in the world, you will need this power. People will be led astray from God-ward path due to loss of this power and they will keep lurking in this world—the mire of delusion. What would be then the benefit of any good message, spiritual command, ancient texts, and scriptures that act as the guiding lights for such people?
This would result in chaos in the world, and everywhere confusion would prevail. On the stage of this world, we have to discourage bad and hail the good. Moreover, due to the ego that one has renounced its fruits of actions, one would lose the discrimination power of good and bad, which is impractical—while in the world, you will need this power. People will be led astray from God-ward path due to loss of this power and they will keep lurking in this world—the mire of delusion. What would be then the benefit of any good message, spiritual command, ancient texts, and scriptures that act as the guiding lights for such people?
Attachment breeds attachment
Attachment breeds sense of belonging to the material objects of this world, which is not a good characteristic for any spiritual aspirant. By all this discussion that we are having, we do not have any intention to say that this world should be condemned severely and should be declared as a useless creation that has no value, potential, or purpose, whatsoever. What we are trying to state is that one has to know the reality of this world, which is transitory: change is the only constant in this world, as they say.
Attachment breeds sense of belonging to the material objects of this world, which is not a good characteristic for any spiritual aspirant. By all this discussion that we are having, we do not have any intention to say that this world should be condemned severely and should be declared as a useless creation that has no value, potential, or purpose, whatsoever. What we are trying to state is that one has to know the reality of this world, which is transitory: change is the only constant in this world, as they say.
The world has a changing nature
This world has changing nature and this is where many people feel betrayed by it—they end up blaming everything: they feel repelled by the attractions of this world because those have failed them; and at the same time, they do not have any liking for detachment, which they feel is like a useless talk, which results in naught. Detachment is a very high-class idea, which only comes through experience—it allows you to work for the world but avoid being of it.
This world has changing nature and this is where many people feel betrayed by it—they end up blaming everything: they feel repelled by the attractions of this world because those have failed them; and at the same time, they do not have any liking for detachment, which they feel is like a useless talk, which results in naught. Detachment is a very high-class idea, which only comes through experience—it allows you to work for the world but avoid being of it.
What Lord Krishna says
In the Bhagwad Gītā, Lord Krishna sings about this in beautiful verses. In the second chapter, He sings: ध्यायतो विषयान् पुंसः सङगस्तेषूपजायते । सङगात्सञजायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते ।। (A person who concentrates on sense-objects gets rooted in them. This rooting produce wants to possess them. From these wants, anger is produced when they are not fulfilled)
In the Bhagwad Gītā, Lord Krishna sings about this in beautiful verses. In the second chapter, He sings: ध्यायतो विषयान् पुंसः सङगस्तेषूपजायते । सङगात्सञजायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते ।। (A person who concentrates on sense-objects gets rooted in them. This rooting produce wants to possess them. From these wants, anger is produced when they are not fulfilled)
Canto
क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोहः सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः । स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ।। (From anger arises delusion. From delusion, the power of remembrance gets deluded. From deluded remembrance, wisdom is lost, and from lost wisdom, the man faces downfall.)
क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोहः सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः । स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ।। (From anger arises delusion. From delusion, the power of remembrance gets deluded. From deluded remembrance, wisdom is lost, and from lost wisdom, the man faces downfall.)
Canto
रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् । आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति ।। (The person who masters the instincts of attachment and anger and controls the senses from objects, he gets happiness from his own self.)
रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् । आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति ।। (The person who masters the instincts of attachment and anger and controls the senses from objects, he gets happiness from his own self.)
Canto
प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते । प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते ।। (Chapter 2, Canto 60-63) (Feeling happy about his own self, all the grief is lost. And the wisdom of this happy person gets fixed in God)
प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते । प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते ।। (Chapter 2, Canto 60-63) (Feeling happy about his own self, all the grief is lost. And the wisdom of this happy person gets fixed in God)
The essence of these lines
The essence of these lines lie in the fundamental statement that Lord Krishna wanted to convey that the man concerned about the elements gets caught in the world. It experiences greed, anger, attachment, and delusion, which annihilate the wisdom, and thus the man faces downfall. However, the person who rises above these and concentrates on the Ātmā-principle and has mastered the mind-sense complex, he is always happy and gets fixed in God.
The essence of these lines lie in the fundamental statement that Lord Krishna wanted to convey that the man concerned about the elements gets caught in the world. It experiences greed, anger, attachment, and delusion, which annihilate the wisdom, and thus the man faces downfall. However, the person who rises above these and concentrates on the Ātmā-principle and has mastered the mind-sense complex, he is always happy and gets fixed in God.
How attached you are?
Om Namah Shivay
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