Page 28 - All India Magazine Jul-2025

Attachment

Attachment to Others
All that is based on human relationship is unstable and tran-
sient, mixed and unsatisfactory; it is only what is established in
the Divine and through the Divine that can last and give satis-
faction.
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A friendship free from desire and attachment might be the ideal
solution, but to be carried out it requires a perfect mastery over
oneself and an unshakable discipline of the vital and the body.
And as for the moment it is not yet the case, it is wiser not to
tempt the devil and to cut all relations.
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There was a time when you were very passionate and your af-
fections degenerated immediately into passions with all the
disequilibrium that this entails.
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But now you are more sober and undoubtedly you are more
calm and quiet, until the day there will be no attachments any
longer but luminous and sweet sympathies without any demand
or egoism.
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All depends upon the kind of attraction.

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I very much appreciate your frankness and your sincerity. It is
true that it is extremely difficult to keep free from vital mixture
any close relation with human beings. But the remedy is not to
cut all such relations, but to be constantly vigilant (on one's
guard) and not to allow the vital attractiveness to rule one's
actions.
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28 All India Magazine, July 2025