Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

Attachment / Attraction for Happiness and Pleasure

 

Question: How to give up attachment and attraction for happiness,

for pleasure?

 

Answer: Human body has not been given for gaining happiness from

sense pleasures and sense enjoyments, rather it is for giving

happiness to others. By giving up selfishness, and giving happiness

to others, our attraction / attachment for sense enjoyments is wiped

out. If we cry and pray to Bhagwaan, " Oh My Father ! Oh My Master,

My Lord ! and call out to Him, then by Bhagwaan's (God's) grace,

this desire for enjoyment of pleasure will be wiped out. But this

solution will be useful when, we desire to leave covetous sense

pleasures.

 

Question: To wipe out attraction / attachment for happiness, for

pleasure, " Naasato vidhyate bhaavah " (Unreal has no existence) this

sentiment is better, or " Vasudeva Sarvam " (All is only God), is this

sentiment better?

 

Answer: He who has immense attraction / attachment to the world,

for him, the " Unreal has no existence " this sentiment will suit him

well, and he who is less attracted / attached to the world, for

him, " All is God " - this inner sentiment will suit him. In

reality, both these sentiments are the same. Of the two, if any one

is attained, then the other will autmotically be realized.

 

In whom there is fear of snake, for him, one has to tell, " this is

not a snake, it is a rope. " But he who has no fear, for that one,

to say that " it is a rope " is of no value. The point is that for

those who have greater attraction / attachment, for them

prohibition , denial is most important.

 

Question: Without attaining the highest happiness (Bliss), how can

attraction for insignificant (unimportant, shortlived) happiness be

given up?

 

Answer: The solution to this is that on the subject of divinity, pay

attention and respect, and have faith in it, even if you gain the

slightest bit of happiness. Just like, in discourses, hearing

divine stories, chanting holy name, etc., one gains pleasure, but

there is no object of passion / sense enjoyment, but we do not

honour it. If in transcendental / divine subject, if even the

slightest bit of happiness is gained, we must continue to have faith

in it, and we must continue to leave the trust we have in worldly

enjoyments, then we will be able to experience Ultimate Bliss!