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Attachment
Conditioning
Entanglement
Time
Shri Krishna
Nanak Saheb
Objects of Attachment
The 'I'
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that instead of having an innocent eye, clear of concepts and mental and physical modifications, one is filled with a lot of physical and social conditioning. He quotes Nanak Saheb, who bluntly states that such a person would simply be consumed by time and taken away by the messenger of death. The core issue is being excessively attached to all the objects in life. There are two kinds of attachments. The first is physical, where one is conditioned like an animal to be attached, especially to blood relations, such as a calf to a cow. This is the great entanglement the gurus have warned against. If one is preoccupied with this "cow and calf business," they will totally miss Shri Krishna. This is what the body does; it claims people and things as "mine," which is the entanglement. The second level of attachment is mental and can be even more subtle. This includes attachment to money, property, and wealth, as well as to one's prestige, reputation, fame, and even one's own knowledge, including spiritual knowledge. We get attached to everything, from the most gross to the most subtle objects, randomly and indiscriminately. A person can be found attached in all possible ways: to their body, babies, parents, husband, friends, relatives, money, furniture, car, house, reputation, and self-esteem. While the objects of attachment may vary in their grossness or subtlety, the faculty of attachment remains the same. The speaker states that the 'I' is so lonely that it keeps finding something, or rather everything, to latch on to. When this happens, the obvious truth is ignored. Time, the great messenger, keeps passing by without delivering its message because one is busy in their own little world of "my this, my that."