What is the cause of attachment. Why do we get attached somewhere?
Everybody has got different attachments somebody is so attached to the carrier
he doesn't care for the family, somebody is so attached to the wife he doesn't
care for the carrier, somebody is so attached to money they have bride
burning in India, so much of attachment to money, somebody says "sab bhad mai jaey botal lao"
he is attached to his alcohol. So what is causing attachment?
What is the cause of desire?
Everybody has got different desires sitting listening to the lecture
somebody's mind goes to jalebi somebody's mind goes to chai somebody's
mind goes to the child or the parents in India
everybody's desires are different. What is creating desires within us. Somebody's
desiring money money money somebody's desiring prestige prestige
prestige. What is happening in this inner world that is leading to the creation of
different kinds of desires? again the Geeta, "quoting from Bhagwad Gita"
2.64 Cause of desire is attachment. When the mind is attached to
some object or to some person the attachment of the mind causes desire not
the intrinsic object as such. You see like you may say that you know something
has got a wonderful taste hence it creates desire of course not
Tell me does alcohol have a good taste chi chi Swamiji it causes vomiting to me
but you ask the same question to an alcoholic, who says bad taste
when I go by the pub and I get the whiff of it I start swaying from side to
side. So you say I'll give you a better tasting thing
forget about alcohol I'll give you milk with kesar pista and badam and saffron on
it. I don't want that I want alcohol see he doesn't want just taste he wants that
to which his mind has got attached. Now your mind is attached to your child you
place your child in the lap, you smell the child the child's nose may be flowing
may have done excreta it doesn't matter to you
supposing I say place your nose on your neighbors body for 20 minutes. Swamiji in
the summers he's sweating how can I do that he's foul-smelling. Really your
neighbor is smelling and your child is not smelling? Yea the child should be
smelling I don't know why he's not smelling. Your mind is attached the
attachment has created the desire to hold the child to hear the child to see
the child it is not the intrinsic qualities your child may be beautiful or
ugly that doesn't matter. One mother her child got lost in the
fair, she had gone to you know Anand Bazar Mela and the child got lost. So she
went to the policeman my child has got lost the policeman said mother five
lost-and-found children have been brought see which of them is yours. My
child is not here. Mother how does your child look like? my
child he walks with a limp and his hand is contorted and because of a paralytic
attack his face is twisted and he doesn't have one eye there a pock marks
on his face. CheeChee mother what kind of child are you
desiring? You have seen such beautiful children just pick anyone and feel your
maternal affection. The mother says Mr. policeman are you crazy, I don't want any
of them, I don't want any beautiful child I want my child to whom I am attached
you will never understand a mother's heart. See the mother wants her child to
whom she has got attached so what is creating the desires it's not the
intrinsic qualities of some object it is the attachment of our mind that is what
Lord Krishna stated "quoting from Bhagawd Gita" number one comes attachment , your
mind is attached number two comes desire
number three the fulfillment of desire leads to greed and number four it's
obstruction leads to anger straightforward logic. Now if we are
attached we cannot avoid desire, impossible and if we are not attached
we will not experience desire and everything else will get dismantled
So then desires seems to be caused by attachment. Attachment is the cause of it
all
but what is the cause of attachment? Why do we get attached somewhere? everybody
has got different attachments. Somebody is so attached to the carrier he doesn't
care for the family somebody is so attached to the wife he doesn't care for
the carrier, somebody is so attached to money they have bride burning in India
so much of attachment to money somebody says "sab bhad mai jai botal lap"
he's attached to his alcohol, so what is causing attachment? Okay this is the
important one, it is our own contemplation that causes attachment! See
here is how Shri Krishna begins the link "quoting Bhagawad Gita"
Arjun when you repeatedly contemplate happiness somewhere when you
repeatedly think this will give me happiness
this has got pleasure this will satisfy me, your own repetition of thought
creates the attachment. It doesn't come from the outside
somebody repeatedly contemplated happiness in cigarettes
How did one get attached to cigarettes where you born a cigarette smoker from
the mother's stomach get me the Marlboros otherwise I will
not be happy No then when that boy or girl went to
college and she got some newfound freedom then he saw his friends dangling
cigarettes between the two fingers he said their personality looks very
impressive. His intellect said you know there is happiness in cigarettes so he
tried one and it was a foul experience, he started coughing his eyes became red
his friends instigated no no it'll give you happiness it is giving us happiness
so he kept on contemplating yes there is happiness there is happiness so he
started taking one hiding from the parents sitting in the restroom, under
the staircase and then it increased to two everyday then thr ee everyday and ten
everyday and then it became a link one has got extinguished the second one is
required that has got extinguished the third one is required now a link has got
created. The same cigarette that he first tried out let us see what is there in
this now the cigarette comes into his mind and pinches him, smoke me I will not
let you live in peace. How did this attachment come about by repeatedly
thinking there is happiness there!