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conditions make them feel this way, but those conditions change. Tedium towards worldly life is attachment for it
Dadashri: Do you ever feel mentally and physically tired( kantado) of the worldly life?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: That is attachment( raag). You feel that way only where there is attachment; it is dependent upon circumstances. Kantado( mental and physical repulsion) is really thoughts of the mind. You should tell these thoughts,“ Come. Come. However many thoughts that want to come!” Thoughts that spring forth, come from the stock that exists in the mind and they are discharging. When do they discharge completely? They discharge when You remain in the awareness of the Self but when you become engrossed( tanmayakar) with them, then those karmas become sticky and the thought will linger. The mind will show all kinds of things but You should not become one with it. You should remain just the observer of whatever is happening.
On one side arises dispassion( vairaag) and inevitably on the other side there will arise attachment( raag) along with it. So, one has to investigate where the attachment is. When a person gets old( has dispassion due to the suffering of old age), he still feels it would be nice to live longer( raag for life). Is that under his control? One simply has to know and observe all the different kinds of thoughts that arise. Some will even see their own death in their dreams! The world is completely different.
There is nothing higher than attachment for a Gnani Purush and detachment from everything else. It can cure everything. What is the human form? It is worthy of worship even by the Devas; the celestial Gods. It is very rare even for the Devas to attain a human birth! Human birth is priceless provided one attains full enlightenment. Enlightenment occurs when the diseases