The punya is the genuine currency of the spiritual kingdom, which is 'legal
tender' there by which you can obtain happiness while the evil that is thought, spoken and
done in this world gets transformed at the counter as illegal currency of that world, and
you undergo punishment for possessing it.
If a man is asked what is dear to him, he
will enumerate a number of things. That may be his wife, his children, his property and
many such things that he holds dear. But this is certain; the things that he holds dear
are pegs, which constrain him to weep. If the thing goes away before the person dies, he
weeps over having to lose it. If he dies before it goes away, he weeps for having to part
from it.
Attachment is
the seed of sorrow. There will be no cause for sorrow only if there is no forcible
parting between a person and the thing, which he holds dear. But parting is inevitable.
How to take away the sorrow from parting? This can be effected by resignation, by
renouncing. By mutual agreement, as, it were, between the things of the world which a
person holds dear and himself, he can part in peace and happiness. That is what is called
freedom from attachment or vairaagya. |
