Our culture has turned attachment into value, very proximate to love. However, attachment is poison and has nothing to do with love. We don’t feel ashamed admitting that we are attached, as if something beautiful is happening. If you are with the wrong one, and not even prepared to see that you are with the wrong one — that’s attachment. And you can never be attached to the Right One; there is only dissolution.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, Pranaam. Once we are attached to anything, there is so much of suffering. Please help me understand this.
Acharya Prashant: End of suffering is just an idea for us. Let’s rather talk about suffering — that is a fact, that is our daily experience. The questioner is quoting me from somewhere. The quote runs this way, “Once you are attached to nothing, that is the end of suffering.”
I am saying that the end of suffering is a mere concept. Do you know the end of suffering? Do you have any closeness or any familiarity with it? So don’t talk about the ‘end of suffering’, talk only about ‘suffering’.
You know suffering. Where does it come from? Where does it come from? It comes from pursuing paths that lead to nowhere, rather they just turn around at some point and bring you back where you started from. That is what is called in India as – a cycle of birth and death.
