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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
life. I also find happiness in sharing with others and living for others.
Master says in the same message that, ‘Necessities of life should be meager. "Plain living and high thinking" is an English proverb. Detachment in attachment is really needed. “Happiest man is he who is happy under all circumstances.”
Further our Pujya Sir says that, ‘The feeling of Santushti or being satisfied with what we have is the first step in becoming happy. This is the secret of happiness. If this is not there any amount of comfort or riches or fame will not give happiness. Real Santushti feeling is a by product of the awareness of transitoriness of things and events in life’.
(Bodhyanti Parasparam – Volume III, Page-12)
Master also says in the same message that “We should live a life like the coot and the ducks in the water, which when they are out of water, have no effect of water on their wings. Similarly, we should love our parents and everybody in the family without being soiled by attachment.”
He also gives hint in the same message that ‘Detachment in attachment is really needed’.
Pujya Sir says in Vairagya article that ‘Due attachment is what we have been stressing most, but we can take it as due attachment when it is not interfering with our attachment to the Divine. If our attachment to the Divine is not affected to that extent we can say other attachments are acceptable and that is possible only when we live as a trustee. If we have got any other attitude other than that of a trustee we can never have 'Due attachment'.
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