Having and Possessing is really different.
We can always love everyone as God's Gift...it is the easiest way. When we lend a 'crystal crockery set' from our neighbour, we take care not to break it, as we are quite sure that we are not the owner of it; we have to give it back to the owner without breaking it. So also everything we are endowed with in this world, our kith & kin, our so-called person...al belongings, etc., are all Gifted by Him for a short while. He may take them back, or pass it on to someone else in due course of time. When we have them, we can enjoy their company remembering they are His Divine Gifts with an attitude of gratitude towards Him. Then there is no question of attachment or
'I-ness or my-ness' or 'ownership feeling', we are free to love, love and love.
'I-ness or my-ness' or 'ownership feeling', we are free to love, love and love.
Let me quote wise words of Swami Chinmayananda, explaining how our karma becomes bondage.
"When any action is undertaken with ego and egocentric desires - "I" and "I want" attitudes - that action leaves its impression as aVASANA in us, prompting a repetition of the same action. (Thus one drinks with an attitude of 'I am enjoying', 'I like it', 'I want to have it', then you find him growing in his ...HABIT of drinking. An innocent village-woman in hospital takes an ounce of brandy daily for six weeks, and yet she does not develop the habit because she was taking it daily only for improving her health - as a medicine. So also, a criminal mind becomes a professional murderer with each added man-slaughter, while an army officer, though he has killed many, never becomes a murderer! He in the battle, killed not for his own ego and ego-satisfaction, but in the defence of the country).
An act itself cannot leave any impression upon us - but selfish acts, prompted by personal desire-gratifications, do generate vasana-encrustations".Because of the vasanas in us, we have 'desires'. Desire leads to karma. Karma in turn leads to ego (doership & enjoyership), if we do not surrender our karmas to the Lord.
"When any action is undertaken with ego and egocentric desires - "I" and "I want" attitudes - that action leaves its impression as aVASANA in us, prompting a repetition of the same action. (Thus one drinks with an attitude of 'I am enjoying', 'I like it', 'I want to have it', then you find him growing in his ...HABIT of drinking. An innocent village-woman in hospital takes an ounce of brandy daily for six weeks, and yet she does not develop the habit because she was taking it daily only for improving her health - as a medicine. So also, a criminal mind becomes a professional murderer with each added man-slaughter, while an army officer, though he has killed many, never becomes a murderer! He in the battle, killed not for his own ego and ego-satisfaction, but in the defence of the country).
An act itself cannot leave any impression upon us - but selfish acts, prompted by personal desire-gratifications, do generate vasana-encrustations".Because of the vasanas in us, we have 'desires'. Desire leads to karma. Karma in turn leads to ego (doership & enjoyership), if we do not surrender our karmas to the Lord.
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