Golden Steps To Salvation

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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“I experience sorrow on account of the things for which I have attachment. On the contrary, happiness arises from natural contentment from those objects for which I have no attachment."
There are two words : Attachment and detachment. The difference between them is only ore Cound; but if we think of the effects, the difference between 'em is greater than that between the earth and heaven. Attaciiment entangles the jivās in the cycle of samsāra (birth and death) and detachment releases the jivās from samsāra and takes them towards salvation.
अपेक्षवषनो बन्धः उपेक्षेव विमुक्तता Apekshaiva ghano bandhaḥ
Upekshaiva vimuktafa. “Attachment is the strongest bondage; while detachment is deliverance."
In this world, that man who is a lord, not a slave, of desires achieves a real victory.
आशाया ये दासास्ते दासा: सर्व लोकस्य । आशा दासी येषाम् तेषां दासयते लोकः ।। Ishaya ye dāsā
ste dāsāh sarva lokasya Āsha dasi eşām
Teshāṁ dāsayate lokah "The man who is a slave to desires is a slave to the whole world. But, the man who enslaves desires is the lord of life (samsāra)."
MAHATMA KABIR considered such a man as an emperor of emperors.
चाह गई चिन्ता मिटी मनुवा बेपर्वाह ।
जिसको कछ न चाहिये सोही शाहंशाह ॥ Chāh gayi chintā miti manuva beparvāha Jisko kachu na chahiye Sohi Shāhanshāha.