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there 'cannot be any kind of Yoga. Nonattachment is the basis of all the Yogas. The man who gives up living in houses, and wearing fine clothes, and eating good food, and goes into the desert, may be a most attached person. His only possession, his own body, may become everything to him; and as he lives he will be simply struggling for the sake of his body. Non-attachment does not mean any thing that we may do in relation to our external body, but it is all in the mind. The binding link of "'I and mine" is in the body. If we have not this link with the body and with the things of the senses, we are Non-attached, wherever and whatever we may be. A man be on a throne and perfectly non. attached; another man may be in rags® and still very much attached. First, we have to attain this state of non-attachiment, and then to work incessantly. Karma-Yoga gives us the methods that will help us in giving up all attachment. It is indeed a hard thing to give up attachment.
