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Chapter 15
When a man realizes, 'I am neither body nor the body is mine,' desire, attachment and identification - the three perish. This is real detachment or dispassion.
All desires (lusts) perish, from the inner sense of the striver, who is dispassionate, from within. A devotee possessing strong dispassion, having no affinity for the insentient objects, such as the body, senses, mind and intellect etc., wishes everyone to be happy, free from disease and suffering and to attain benediction.
'I' is the knower and the onlooker, while the entire universe, including the gross, subtle and causal bodies, to be known and seen. 1', is imperishable, while the universe and the body, are perishable. He who realizes this distinction, cuts off this tree of creation, with a strong axe of non-attachment. When a man, does not attach importance to this discrimination, the tree of creation, seems to be firm-rooted.
Worldly objects cannot be totally destroyed, but attachment to these can be totally, renounced. This detachment, is known as cutting of this tree.
The universe ceases, to be, when attachment to it, is renounced. Only a thing or person, we have no real affinity for, can be renounced (cut off). A man (the self), is sentient and imperishable, while the universe is insentient, and perishable. So his affinity for the universe is unreal, it is assumed, by an error. He, who is really detached, gets detached. We should accept the fact, that we have no attachment for the universe. Howsoever, firm-rooted the world may be, if we do not accept our affinity for it, it is naturally cut off, because this affinity, is merely assumed. So a striver, should doubtlessly believe,that he has no affinity at all for the world, even though he may not perceive it, in practical life.
A man, himself has accepted this affinity for the body, and the world. So, it is his responsibility, to cut it off. Therefore, the Lord is exhorting us, to cut it off.
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