Passage 13

In English

How to get rid of worry and attachment

Students! How do you get rid of worry? Worry arises out of (attachment). To get rid of attachment for anything, you should turn your yearning towards something that is greater, more beautiful and satisfying than the one to which you are attached. There is an illustration for this from the . When and returned to from their uncle's kingdom, they were stricken with grief on learning about the death of their father. They felt sad that they had been denied the chance to be beside their father at the moment of his passing. When they went to to enquire about and , and what their father's last words were, broke into sobs and told them about the exile of and how and had gone with him into the forest to stay there for fourteen years. When heard this, his love for overwhelmed his grief over the death of his father, and his greater love for made him even bitter with regard to his father as the cause of 's exile. The grief over the death of the father yielded place to the sadness over separation from his beloved brother.