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CHAPTER 18. NON-ATTACHMENT IS NOT AVERSION
– it was the wealthy class, chasing wealth that was most impressed by Mahavira’s sacrifice. While
they clung to every penny like leeches, there was Mahavira who threw away a whole kingdom. He
became God in their eyes. Mahavira attracted them because of their attachment to wealth.
A renunciate would not be influenced by Mahavira. He would say, ”There is nothing great in parting
with trash; wealth is trash.” But those who took trash for diamonds bowed down to Mahavira and
worshipped him. Even one who cannot give up a thing cherishes a desire to give up, renunciation
becomes his ideal, his dream. He knows in his heart of hearts that clinging is painful and he dreams
of the day when he will be capable of renunciation. So a renunciate becomes his polestar; he
worships him as his God. This is how renunciates are surrounded by those who are steeped in
indulgence.
The opposite works like a magnet, it is magnetic. And it works on its own as every scientific law
does. If we understand this law rightly we can divide the whole world into different magnetic fields
of consciousness, as the physicists do in regard to matter and energy. Then we will know how
consciousness is attracted, drawn and formed and then it disappears. Very strange things happen
in the world of consciousness which are not apparent.
So whenever you are attracted to someone, know well that he is not your type – he is your opposite,
your complementary. He can never help you in your spiritual journey. He can however be helpful in
your worldly life, and he can also help you in a way to know your type.
Remember, spiritualism is a search of the self, of self-nature. You have to know who you are. And
once you know who you are, you will attain to inaction without quitting action. You will attain to truth
without leaving the world. The world will remain as it is, but you will undergo a mutation. Everything
will remain the same, but you will not remain the same, you will be transformed. And the day you are
transformed, everything is transformed for you because what you see is your world. Your perception
creates your world.
Question 7
QUESTIONER: KRISHNA SAYS TO ARJUNA, ”IF YOU FIGHT, TREATING EQUALLY VICTORY
AND DEFEAT, GAIN AND LOSS, PLEASURE AND PAIN, NO SIN WILL ATTACH TO YOU, AND
YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN.” DOES IT MEAN THAT IF ONE FIGHTS WITHOUT ATTACHMENT
THEN VIOLENCE CEASES TO BE VIOLENCE?
A few things need to be understood in the context of this question.
The first thing Krishna says is that violence; is a lie which does not exist; violence is an illusion, it
is not real. Nobody can be killed really. Krishna says, ”Na hanyate hanyamane sharire: nobody is
killed when his body is killed.” And so far as the body is concerned, it is already dead; so it is wrong
to say that the body dies.
In the first place Krishna says that violence is impossible, it is a misnomer. But it does not mean
that one should freely indulge in violence. While violence itself is not real, violent mind is real. It is
true, you can desire to kill someone, although he cannot be killed. This is a different thing – that
one cannot be killed – but if you desire to kill him then this desire is real, and this desire is sinful.
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