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It is common to be attached to one's perspectives.
Acharya Hemachandra presented a charming truth with the following sloka:
Kamaragasneharagou, ishatkaranivaranou Drishtiragastu papiyan durachchedaha satamapi.
Sexual passion and the passion of affection can both be easily removed. Between a husband and wife there is sexual attachment. The mother has bondings of love with her son. Both these attachments can be erased on trying. But the passion with which one holds on to one's views is very difficult to erase.
The passion towards one's views causes a lot of destruction. Even stalwarts are not able to give this up. There are those who have left their homes, their families, given up the love of their parents and cut off relationship with their friends...they have given up everything but not the attachment to their opinions. They are themselves caught in that. The attachment to one's views is a dangerous kind of attachment, bonding.
A householder's family is made of the mother, father, husband, brother, sister and so on. The monk's family is the sastra or sacred texts. A monk gets as attached to his texts, as entangled within them
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