Passage 22

In English

The fourth type of is called . has been explained by some people by saying that while one’s own house is burning, all attempts on his part to save himself from the burning house will be called . This means that when one is burning in the fire of his , entangled in the cycle of birth and death, to be able to rescue himself from that fire and save himself is called . If you are able to have detachment and not think that some people belong to you and some people do not belong to you, and recognise that the only truth is the and get out of this fire of , it is . The which enables you to decrease your attachment and your is called . To give up one’s desires and experience and enjoy the bliss of detachment is called . One can also explain by saying that it is to get rid of your sorrow and to enjoy bliss. How do we attain this? There is an easy path. Truly, when you have an intense desire to achieve this, there is no other path easier than this. It is difficult for us to get attached to things. It is easy to give up things. You feel that the world is attaching itself to you and because of this attachment, it causes pain to you. If you think that while you make an attempt to detach yourself from the world, the world is not getting detached from you; it is wrong. You have attached yourself to the world. The world has not attached itself to you.