Attachment & Bondage

Question: Sat, is the definition of “attachment” actually identifying with the mind and body, and how can we get rid of our attachment and bondages in this life?

Sat: Yes, it’s true. Again, we go back to the fact that we are not so concerned about our personality, whether it is attachment, desire, this or that. We are going to the root cause of all this identification with the body, the family, with the wealth, etc. And that is identifying ourselves with our mind; the body is only a thought in the mind. In other words, it was created, the body cannot sustain itself without the mind. So the way, the true way, the wise way, the most permanent way is through wisdom, through Truth. To get familiar with the fact that the base of our thoughts is emptiness and therefore they lose their power. When they lose their power, the personality begins to crack down, the belief system, the acceptance system, etc. And the cause of all that is ignorance and ignorance only exists in the ideas in the mind.
So, you cannot say to yourself, “I should not be attached to my family.” Then your mind says, “Why not? … You love them … you should be attached.” The release is not through an idea, it is through the elimination of ideas. So, we leave all of those austerities and hard work to release ourselves, put everything aside. The moment you stay in the State of Being, you are one with God.

Now, if this continues throughout your day, through your recognition and ability to Stay, then there is nothing for you to do. You don’t need any practice, you don’t need any knowledge, you don’t need any devotion, you don’t even need service to others. You embody all the goodness without effort.
Adrienne: I was wondering if letting go of one’s family really means you are letting go of who you were taught you are, who they think you are, and who you think you are supposed to be because you are modeling [yourself] after your family. You are not letting go of them as much as their chains.

Sat: You are absolutely right and you said it beautifully. I love My children, I love My grandchildren, I am [there] for them and whenever they call and they need something, I am there. But something happens when you identify less and less with your body. [Actually] not so much the body, but the mind. If we say “the mind,” the body automatically goes down too. [When you identify less with] who you are not and you think you are, and don’t give much attention to what other people think you are, the attachment, the concern and the worry does not grab you and make you stay in the mind.

The love flows automatically out of the knowingness that all is God. When I say all is God, please don’t think that I am talking about the body and mind of people. All is God meaning that even the play of maya, is one with That. I hope you can understand what I am saying; I am not contradicting Myself. It is like the night dream, it is part of the dreamer but the dreamer is the existence of the night dream. Without the dreamer night dream would not exist.

So, it would be like this: you go through life, you might even love more properly but there is not this reality to it, there is not this need of being accepted or being loved. You get all this nourishment from within yourself. We are not so concerned about our personality but we are well concerned about knowing who we are not and who we really are.

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Chat - 9/2/2021

Adrienne: Sometimes you can mistake attachment with an attachment to other people’s misery. The Truth is really the only thing that is going to help and not attaching yourself to others’ misery, even if they are in your family.

Sat: Yeah. When the mind is simplified, the stories go out with it. As the stories become meaningless, other peoples’ stories become meaningless too. It is not that you don’t have compassion; you just know the Truth- that they are not their story and we are not our story!

Sept 02, August 29, 2021