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Soul – A Slave ?

The reality is such :

Business leads to wealth, wealth benefits your house, the house
benefits your body and the body is utilised for worldly
activities. But the slave who is doing the slavery in all these
situations is your soul. He has to undergo all the worry, fear,
disturbance and tension and you still claim to have attained
happiness through all these. You consider them a blessing,

worthy of your trust and affection. Is this an intelligent act?
For how long will you remain a slave of all these?

A worker has to bear the insults and abuses of his employer
and work to earn his livelihood. He has no other option but
to continue working. Now, will he consider his employer a
good man? Will he trust and favour him? No honourable
man would do so.

Similarly, a non-attached (Vairagi) soul is an honourable soul
living in this ephemeral world. Having no choice, he has to
maintain contact with business, money, family, respect and

goodwill, body and food. Acquiring happiness from all of
these are his weaknesses. He consider the tensions and fears
that come along with it to be the abuses from this world –
his employer. Thus, he does not get carried away and does
not shower them with love and affection. This is self-honour.

Vairagya (Non-attachment) = Self honour.

Self-honour enables him to stay awake. He will not get
dominated or cheated. He will try his utmost to eliminate his

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