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This worldly life is filled with sheer danger, it is full of
horror and disgust and what is more, it is constantly this way. Is
it not a wonder that people have attachment for it?
Attachment and its consequences
What will you have attachment (moha) for? Fake gold?!
You can afford to have attachment if it were real but truly all
worldly relationships are like the relationship between a seller
and a buyer. Customers will pay only if the goods are of good
quality. If you were to fight just one hour with your husband,
your relationship will break down, how can you have attachment
for such relationships?
A wealthy businessman says he will work to make money
because he wants to pass his inheritance on to his sons. He
resorts to corrupt and devious means in order to make money
and that too in foreign lands, which he will pass on to his
children. The son has a relation with you which is temporary and
he has a big ego. If his relationship with you were real then it
would be beneficial for you to pass on your inheritance but really
that relationship is sustained because of societal pressure. If a
father and son were to get into an argument, they may even end
up in a court! Many sons say they will place their father in the
homes for the elderly. Don’t they put away aging bullocks in
those special places? Similarly they want to send their fathers off
to the homes for the elderly. What a nice name they have given
to such establishments! ‘We’ fail to understand why one is so
stuck in a relationship such as this. If such relationships were
gentle and congenial, one could afford to let things be. Are you
also not aware of incidents where sons have imprisoned their
fathers in order to take over the kingdom?
This world is like an oil mill; the men are like the bullocks
that turn the wheel that works the rig that crushes the seeds for
oil and the women are like the masters of the bullocks. In the
oil rig the bullock master ‘sings’ and here the women ‘sing’. The