Page 697 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

An Abhyasi asked 'How to develop Due attachment?' Due attachment, as a matter of fact is something that comes out of trusteeship. When we go beyond the trustee level and try to possess then we are having undue attachment.”
(Bodhyanti Parasparam – Volume III, Page-24)
‘There can be only one attachment that is due and that is to the Divine. We should include work, office, home, friends and host of the other things in the work that is due to the Divine as a trustee’.
(Three truths – Trillion doubts, Page-255)
I wish to share how love and attachment to Master will help us in overcoming certain obstacles which will make us unhappy. I feel that we should love Him not for the sake of being happy but love Him for the sake of love.
Here, Pujya Sir says that, ‘Love and attachment to Master has its own rewards. Surely love to Master accomplishes the great tasks of removal of certain spiritual diseases the most important of which are (1) Envy (2) Jealousy (3) Unhappiness and (4) Ill-will towards others. Spiritual Tradition sought to overcome them by (1) Development of maitri or universal fraternity (2) Through development of kindness to all creatures and things in the universe (3) Practice of forbearance and developing an attitude that every thing that happens is a gift from the Divine and accepting them same with gratitude and (4) Development of the happy state of contentment under all circumstances.
By loving Master we accomplish them with His help of Pranahuti and our own efforts to some extent too. By loving Him who loves all we remove the brokenness in the thread of love that weaves our destiny as worthy and
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