KY Chp7-How To Become Unselfish-Dec 10, 2018 – VUSG
Unselfishness- VUSG – Dec 10, 2018 Class material covered in Vedanta US Study Group on Dec 10, 2018 Pg101 So Karma-Yoga says, first destroy the tendency to project this tentacle of selfishness , and when you have the power of checking it, hold it in and do not allow the mind to get into the ways of selfishness. Then you may go out into the world and work as much as you can. Mix everywhere, go where you please; you will never be contaminated with evil. There is the lotus leaf in the water; the water cannot touch and adhere to it; so will you be in the world. This is called Vairâgya ", dispassion or non-attachment. I believe I have told you that without nonattachment there cannot be any kind of Yoga . Non-attachment is the basis of all the Yogas. The man who gives up living in houses, 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 ...