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Home » Day to Day Life » My question is on the part where you mentioned about people who sacrifice for greater love like creative writers or leaders. In the closing sentence, you mention social duty. Please clarify my misunderstanding – I have always considered sacrificing for nation or inspiring others as social duty. What qualifies as a social duty? And how can one become a sacrifice and another an attachment? 🖇️🔗👥🤝

My question is on the part where you mentioned about people who sacrifice for greater love like creative writers or leaders. In the closing sentence, you mention social duty. Please clarify my misunderstanding – I have always considered sacrificing for nation or inspiring others as social duty. What qualifies as a social duty? And how can one become a sacrifice and another an attachment? 🖇️🔗👥🤝

I read your post , Very beautiful point on setting people free and I have noticed that some connections do provide emotional nourishment that explains my attachment or addiction and I am working on weaning off but the process was scary initially.

What if the desire to hold on — the attachment — isn’t rooted in pride or the need to show ownership, but rather in a deep sense of care? A quiet protectiveness, born not from materialism, but from love. What if it’s not about clinging to possessions, but about holding close the people who matter most — not out of selfishness, but from the fear of loss?🤔🌼✨[…]

Social duties are primarily those born out of social relationships as an accepted convention in a given society. They are not truth but they help trimming our egoism by teaching us to subordinate our personal likes and dislikes and demands to the need of others. When rightly done with an inner detachment to the outer fruits, without expectations, they quieten the noise of the desires and cravings in us, thus preparing us for higher things. But if indulged excessively or for their own sake, or for the egoism of being special or greater than others, then it can become a serious impediment to a still higher life. The egoism of being a good person is like the chains of gold that one is unable to break even though they are easy to do so. That is what we see in the teaching of the Gita, of the Buddha and all the wise ones. One has to discard, at some points the attachment to social duties, including national etc, however wonderful they are, to arrive at the still higher, wider and more comprehensive Truth.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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I read your post , Very beautiful point on setting people free and I have noticed that some connections do provide emotional nourishment that explains my attachment or addiction and I am working on weaning off but the process was scary initially.

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