ATTACHMENTS HARD TO SHED AS EGO

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By Subodh Kumar Misra · 85 of 93
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Subodh
Every type of attachment is a transference of oneself to another. If a mother loves the child, the mother has gone; only child is there. If the child is unhappy, the mother cannot be happy. If the child goes away from this world, it looks as if the mother herself is dead. It is bondage because the consciousness clings to what we are not; you can never become another. By selfhood what we mean is, we have some status in us which cannot be externalized or transferred to something else. Now the transference which takes place between the Self which we are and the object outside is a false one. All attachments , therefore, are false. It is false because the Self artificially transfers itself to something, while such a transference is not permissible under the very characteristic of the Self. ……Aum!.

Attachments seem to be as hard to shed as the ego.
Maybe it is in the matter of degrees.
Awareness and lowering attachment
and ego seems to be about as good as I can do,
while here in this body?