In my discussions with my friends, one point that comes up quite often is the role of attachments in our lives. How will we be motivated to live life in the absence of attachments? In that case, we will not have any relationships. Without attachments, life will be dull.
I have a very simple question to ask. Do we play only for the sake of winning the game or can we play for the sake of fun of playing? I feel that best play is where there is nothing to win or lose and yet we give our best. The best artistic performances are where the artist is performing for the sake of expressing himself and not for the sake of earning money or getting a round of applause. The best scientific discoveries are the ones where the scientist is searching for the truth just for the sake of knowing and there is no commercial interest.
The soul has entered the human body. The soul is always free. Free of all types of attachments. It is fully aligned with the divine will. It wants to manifest the widest possibilities on the earth. However, the body is full of ignorance and inertia. While making the decisions, on the one hand, the soul wants to express freely, on the other hand, the body sticks to its own inertia. The soul wants freedom and the body wants pleasure. Sometimes, the body delays gratification and decides to work hard in anticipation of the pleasures at a future date and we confuse this hard work with free expression of the soul. So long as there is a desire to get immediate gratification or delayed gratification, it is definitely not the expression of the free soul.
However, each one of us definitely gets the moments every day when that soul expresses freely. If we are a little aware of those moments, we will start cherishing the freedom of the soul. With constant cherishing of freedom, there will come a stage when we start questioning the demand of the body for gratification. That questioning results in examination. A choiceless observation. Where we see things as they are. We see what constant gratification is doing to us. Where is it leading us? The very act of questioning, examination, and observation makes us aware of the trap. The moment we are aware of the trap, we are free of the same. The more we question, examine, and observe, the more of it gets dropped. However, there are layers and layers of ignorance hidden in the depths of the unconscious.
Each moment, we have a choice to listen to the chirping of the birds coming from the windows or to play loud music and dance to its tunes. Our conscious and unconscious minds have layers and layers of music that can play all our lives and yet they will keep playing the new soundtracks. However, there are always moments when this loud music stops at least for some moments. These moments bring an opportunity to connect to the chirping of the soul. We have the freedom to choose in each of the moments.
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