Bondage is the attachment to pleasure. All troubles disappear when you say, "I don't need anything." Whoever says, "I want," will not receive anything. "I don't want," he says, and he gets everything.
The lion is enslaved by its connection to food, and the elephant is enslaved by its devotion to food. This is a deception (Maya). This is referred to as bondage. Because of his devotion to a woman, a guy becomes pitiable.
He's caught in the web of attraction because he's been yearning for pleasure for days, and it's turned into a need.
He becomes a slave, as if he is bound, as his infatuation with his attachment grows. Only because desire grows does one become tethered, as if shackled. The relationship is destroyed if that desire is replaced with "Desirelessness."
This was the nature of Lord Krishna's teaching to Hisdisciple Uddhava. Uddhava then inquired of Krishna as to how one may be absolutely devoid of desire.
He desired "Pure Desirelessness" to emerge from the Sattva characteristic.
This detachment is known as "TamasicDesirelessness," and it occurs when someone feels desirous after hearing about the negative impacts of attachment from others. If anything is surrendered in order to achieve Self-Knowledge, the condition of detachment is known as "Rajasic Desirelessness," which is a Rajas characteristic. "Sattvic Desirelessness" occurs when the mind is convinced that all objects are illusory. With genuine " SattvicDesirelessness," the notion of abandoning anything makes one chuckle.
Where was there ever any bondage to be released from?
You've rigged yourself up with non-existent ropes. You may claim to have freed yourself from the chains, yet you were just clinging to something that was not even yours.
What was it that you ever had? What have you thrown away?
This is what the term "Pure Sattvic Renunciation" refers to. What is there to let go of if there was nothing to let go of in the first place? A rat can boast that he has abandoned the item of food in front of a cat, but his bragging is pointless since the instant he tries to take the food, he will perish.
Nonetheless, he claims that it is renounced. Attempting to consume it resulted in death. He is still alive because he did not give up. Renunciation is also about not being proud of what you've given up.
What sacrifice have you made if you perform in accordance with your natural state?
Who was this "I," and how did this "I" come to be associated with "whom"?
Who was "my," and what was "my" in the first place?
It was all a trick of the light. A story is related about a man who once heard that feeding a thousand priests (Brahmins) supper would be a great honor, but he didn't have the money to do it.
So, in order to get virtue, he offered only one Brahmin 10 rupees and did not organize a banquet for a thousand people. With those ten rupees, he was able to satisfy only one Brahmin. So, since he didn't make the thousand-dinner offering, what kind of sacrifice was this?
Keep in mind that people who make public pronouncements about their renunciation are only hypocrites.
Once upon a time, there was a monarch named Bhartruhari who believed he had given up everything. Instead of focusing his thoughts on God, he began to focus on having completed the act of renunciation. True sacrifice does not include such an act of self-sacrifice.
There should be no pride left in you now that you've given up your pride. A person who claims to have renounced is not a true renunciate.
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