In English
The fourth entrance to this mansion is guarded by or detachment. Once a person is fully satisfied, he will naturally get . This detachment should not be something that you get when you do not possess anything. When a person has all the comforts and all the wealth and in the full understanding of their transient nature, if he gives up these material acquisitions, then it can be termed as detachment. Physically, leaving one’s home and family and going away to a forest cannot be called . To be able to curb your needs and limit them and to be satisfied with them is real . For example, if you have a bag full of rice in your house and you want to feed yourselves for a month with that rice, how do you know that you are going to live for a month. If you get a child today, you start saving in order to send him to America for higher education after another twenty years. What is the meaning of this? How do you know what will happen in the next moment? You should therefore aspire to enjoy only that which is yours at the moment. Do not yearn for and run after more and more things. You can remain in the family but do not have the family in you. Describing this aspect, said, “You may put a boat in the water, but you should not put water in your boat.” You should live in the world but do not accumulate things for the future and get yourself worried. True refers to doing your duty at a particular time and to think of what is relevant at that time. This was also described by the poet , by saying, “Talk about what is happening at this moment and do not talk about the future and hurt others.” If we cultivate this aspect, you will develop true . Do not make the distinction by saying that this belongs to you and that belongs to God. In reality, everything belongs to God and you should develop such a feeling. If we want to enter the mansion of and experience his divinity, you must travel along one of these paths. If you can acquire or self-control, you can easily develop the aspect of enquiry or discrimination. Through this, you can develop the aspect of satisfaction and even without your knowledge or making an effort, you will get or detachment. If you cannot develop the aspect of , you should at least make an attempt to think that the entire creation is filled with or divine love. The and have experienced this love. On one occasion, thought that the were very unsophisticated and so he attempted to teach them some ; and with this objective, he entered . The were immersed in the thought of and at all times they were only talking of . All their actions were full of thoughts of . went to the and said, “You are not at all learned in the features of divinity, I will teach you the royal and sacred path to reach the divine; come and listen.” The looked at and asked him to say whatever he had to say quickly so that they do not waste too much time. said that cannot be taught so easily and asked them to listen patiently. Then the said that they neither have the time nor the patience to listen to him and said that they were always only interested in the thought of . They therefore considered listening to the as a waste of time. There are many people who preach but cannot put it into practice.