Vedanta - Learn to be Playful
BRAHMA KUMARIS
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Bliss is never the experience when we are high on something or even on someone! Real bliss is the natural bliss of the soul, of the Self, when we are completely free internally .This is freedom from attachment to everything around us, including matter, material things, memories, ambitions, etc. But it's only possible when we see and realise that our attachments are not `in reality' out there! Our attachments are created within our own consciousness. It's not the actual objects or persons that we attempt to attach to.
Detachment doesn't diminish our capacity to `be loving'.It means we no longer `create' the perception and feeling of being burdened by the other, of being dependent on others or being beholden to others. Like everything else, people come and go, they are all there in the dynamic of daily life, part of the fabric of our life, detachment means we cease to make them our source of happiness in life.
The inner state of freedom that gives rise to the feeling of bliss is already there, but it's been suppressed and buried.It has been lost to our day-today awareness. Almost all addiction is the result of an attempt to resurrect, release and taste this bliss, the purest form of human happiness.
Attachment is essentially what makes us take life too seriously simply because we make ourselves slaves to the objects of our attachments.Liberation from attachment frees us to be `playful' in life, in a way that allows our joy and our bliss to shape the energies that we give to others.
Detachment doesn't diminish our capacity to `be loving'.It means we no longer `create' the perception and feeling of being burdened by the other, of being dependent on others or being beholden to others. Like everything else, people come and go, they are all there in the dynamic of daily life, part of the fabric of our life, detachment means we cease to make them our source of happiness in life.
The inner state of freedom that gives rise to the feeling of bliss is already there, but it's been suppressed and buried.It has been lost to our day-today awareness. Almost all addiction is the result of an attempt to resurrect, release and taste this bliss, the purest form of human happiness.
Attachment is essentially what makes us take life too seriously simply because we make ourselves slaves to the objects of our attachments.Liberation from attachment frees us to be `playful' in life, in a way that allows our joy and our bliss to shape the energies that we give to others.
