Liking and Disliking: The Disease of the Mind !

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Liking and Disliking: The Disease of the MindSwami has constantly stressed in

most of his recent discourses to give up " attachment "(raga bhava) .In tune

with this ...as we deepen our practice of Baba's teachings ...we must begin to

realize ... just how much our mind is tossed about by

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EN-US">things that we like and things that we do not like. We get excited,

laugh or feel very

"happy," when we obtain something we desire, or experience something

pleasurable. We get depressed, frustrated, or anxious when denied what we

desire. We encounter this throughout our day, at work, with our families, in

the public, and in private moments. While we may long for the

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there is much that we can do to elsewhere overcome this "disease" of the mind

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1.0pt 4.0pt">Attachment is the clinging to pleasure."Because of the

individuation of consciousness,

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1.0pt 4.0pt">and its false identification with a particular body and set of

thoughts and memories, we are

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4.0pt">attracted to various pleasant experiences in our environment.

Attachment (ragah), like fear, springs from the imagination (vikalpa). It

occurs when we confuse the internal experience

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outer circumstances, or factors, and we call this association pleasure (sukham).

We imagine that pleasure depends upon the presence of these external

circumstances, or factors. Even when we possess the external factors, we may

still experience attachment because of the fear (imagination) of losing it.

However, in reality, bliss is self-existent, unconditional and independent of

external circumstances or factors. You need only to "be aware" and focus ur

mind to the aforesaid paradigms to

Verdana">concsiously and practically experience it ! Ram

RAM RAM

Thank you & God bless.

Om Sri Sai Ram

Sarvathah paanipaadam Tat sarvatokshi siromukham Sarvathah sruthimalloke Sarvamavritya thishthathi