I really appreciate the people who were not vegetarian by birth but they actually left non-veg.by their will-power because non-vegetarianism for vegetarian people(by Birth) is not a big deal ,the fact is that they do not know the taste of non-veg.,they never relish non-veg but on the other side the people,who really enjoyed the non-veg in their life and they left it ,this is big deal,this is sacrifice.
The same logic I apply for the sages.Living alone or leaving relations or not involving in 'Moh'-affections is not big deal for the sages or devotees who actually left their family for the search of God.This is really big deal if you are living in family and fulfilling the duties of father,mother,sister,brother, husband or wife but still you are reminding yourself that all this world is mortal, nothing is permanent and we should not do that much 'moh' with anything,either it is materialistic or non-materialistic.These thoughts are the big deal,toughest thing to apply in life.But this is selfless approach.Half of the problems in this world will vanish the moment when we will learn to be less possessive and selfless.
One story written by Vivekananda always shiver me --When Narada asked Krishna--What is 'moh'?Krishna told him to get the water for him and Narada went to search of water.He knocked the door of a Brahmin and the beautiful girl of that bramin opened the door.Narada forgot the need of water and he fell in love of that girl.He stayed in the brahmin's home and after some days he married the daughter of that brahmin.After some years he had the family, one wife and two kids.They lived happily but one day in a flood everything washed out.Narada has lost his whole family and he started crying.He was weeping loudly,at that time somebody held his shoulder and that was Krishna. Krishna asked,"Where is water?",Narada was astonished and shocked ,then Krishna smiled,said,"This is moh".Narada learnt the meaning of Moh.
We are like that.We have all these things-money,status,family etc.and we think this is final and we owe all these.No we are wrong,nothing is ours.The mother thinks-her son is only hers,she owes him,no.The husband thinks-wife is his-he owes her-No.
We owe nothing.We are alone just as we came in this world.Yes there are duties,our dharma,which we have to fulfill, this is our task after that we have to go for next journey............for unknown paths................unknown world..................unknown relations...........
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I would also like to refer to those people who have scummbled to vices like smoking/ alcoholism and then they later shoved these vices away. Besides, when Nivedita u talk about MOH, i beleive that this Moh is the bonding which has kept the world beautiful over the cebturies. Had there not been MOH with your family, surroundings, your fellow humans, your work, this world would become an unruly place and everyone would not care about everypne else....
so for me truth of life is in Karma with a positive attitude. Without any karma, a person is as useful as a Stone. you can use it to hit some one, you can use it to make beautiful sculptures but it will never ever do anything positive or contribute anything to this world.
Very truly said and life is all about Karma.But getting too much involved in bondings at the end of the day gives you pain.So detachment is too hard process to accept even but I think this is required somewhere for the relations atleast which gives pain to you.
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