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The need to hold onto something || Acharya Prashant (2017)
Acharya Prashant
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Attachment
Pain
Mind
Subject and Object
Detachment
Self
Consciousness
Spiritual Path
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the agony of feeling like there is nothing to hold onto, questioning why one provides energy to a spinning head or attaches themselves to pain. He explains that the subject and object exist together; if pain is present, it is because a subject is choosing to be attached to it. Pain is not an independent object but a quality of the relationship between the self and an object. He clarifies that claiming to have dropped objects while still experiencing pain is false, as pain is like a shadow that cannot exist without an object. Often, the attempt to become unattached actually makes the relationship with an object stickier because the object now occupies the mind more intensely.