CHAPTER 6
DO THE RIGHT PRAYER FOR FREEDOM
FROM ATTACHMENT
Box of Detachment
Attachment means fondness,
craving or attraction.
Freedom from attachment means
liberation from sorrow.
Liberation from sorrow means merging into bliss.
Tejguru Sirshree Tejparkhiji
Immersed in attachment, man makes wrong perceptions. To solve his problems, he searches for shortcuts, i.e. illegitimate and easy ways. But when he learns that he had made his prayers with his small and lowly mind, he realizes his mistake. After making the prayers, one should definitely think whether the fulfillment of his prayers will prove to be harmful to anyone or to nature. A person prays, “Alas! If only money grew on trees. I would have done so many things. I could have made a mansion for my wife.” But, he does not think that if money grew on trees, from where would he have found the laborers to construct his house? Who would have been ready to work? Who would have come to clean his mansion?
It is necessary to break attachment from all the four. First, from thoughts, second from objects, third from dependency on people and fourth from the body. These four have been discussed in detail in the next chapter. But for now just understand two points: One is attachment for these four should break. And two is that freedom from attachment does not mean that you should not get any of these things. All these things - wealth, position, power – may they come in your life by all means, but they should come in the ‘box of detachment’. Whatever may come, we should be indifferent and unattached towards it. Do the right prayer to the Almighty:
“O God! Grant me everything
in the box of detachment.
O Lord ! Give me
what you have made for me,
And may I express myself fully
with what I get.
Thank you.”
In this prayer, the gift pack or the box of detachment means that whatever you may get, you should not get attached to it because it is this attachment which attracts unhappiness and repels happiness. By saying the wrong prayers, people do acquire quite a few things, but not the bliss. Let bliss be near us and unhappiness be away from us always.