REMEMBER

Always remember that the cause of your attachment to this material world is love which is selfish and not pure love; the desire to please your senses is binding and not relinquishment of desires. Therefore, do not try to use any person, sense object or any material thing for your own enjoyment and even if you get them in the course of your life's journey, do not consider them to be yours and attach your emotions with them. You become happy if you everything happens as you desire and feel sad if the turn of events are not according to your plans. Let the events in your life unfold naturally and take things as they come and remain unaffected by whatever life has to offer you. Love everything that you perceive through your senses for love's sake and that love should not be selfish, but for the betterment and satisfaction of the object or persons you come in contact with. Then your love will not be binding but will become a prayer for the Lord and for the immense enjoyment of the inner self.

In course of our lifetime there are occasions when most of us lament that someone close to us does not love us as he/she used to or his affection for us has diminished with the passage of time. There are other instances when we say that a certain individual did not sacrifice as much as we had done for him/her on earlier occasions. We always crib that we had invested so much of our love ,affection, time and wealth in a certain individual, but he did not reciprocate in the same way when the time to redeem his/her debt to us arose.

When we are in such a frame of mind, we should pause and think, turn our consciousness inwards and start contemplating that - was our love for the individual concerned selfless or was there a desire that he should repay our love towards him by giving us succor during our times of crisis? Had we turned love into trade or exchange of money and goodies for our sense gratification? In such a case there is mutual duplicity and deceit which leads to the apparent lessening of love and indifference.