How can we know our most dangerous attachments?
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question how can we know which are our most dangerous attachments answer we all have various attachments and these are basically the desires that drag us towards things which our intelligence tells us we should not go towards that desire is like a noose that drags us away from where we want to go of course when the desire noose catches us it actually changes our desire that means we want to go in that direction but in our normal consciousness with our alert intelligence we don’t want to go in that direction now when we talk about dangerous attachments the danger can be in multiple ways even a small indulgence when done disproportionately can become a danger so for example a person keeps eating unregulatedly obesity can become chronic obesity it can become morbid obesity and that can also become threatening for life but apart from these individual indulgences that can become dangerous broadly speaking if we consider the four unregulated principles meat eating, intoxication, gambling and lesser sex these are from the scriptural perspective very damaging for the soul so those we can any indulgence or any dalliance in that direction we can consider that as something which needs serious attention of course what kind of attention and what process for expectation that will be something which will vary from person to person but essentially we can understand that the danger is primarily in the so that means if we consider danger the danger can be if somebody is travelling on the road some road itself may take off in a dangerous direction, the road may be leading to a dangerous cliff from which somebody may slip off, the danger can be inherent in the road or sometimes even a safe road can become dangerous if a driver is drunk so like that some attachments themselves take us down dangerous tracks and some attachments themselves may not be very serious say for example somebody is addicted to the internet that might just lead to a lot of waste of time but if that person waste their time may be before an important interview or important exam then that may cause disaster for them so the attachment itself may not be dangerous, the road may not be dangerous but even on a safe road a careless driver can meet with a deadly accident so the important thing is to recognize that we have to have a purpose of where we want to go and we need to reorient ourselves so that we can keep going in that direction, so our intelligence first tells us where we should go and then it reorients us so that we can keep going in that direction, the most important thing in this is to have our intelligence alert and sharp and that comes by the study of the Bhagavad Gita so Bhagavad Gita will help us remember what is the straight path and then will also help us to remember, to help us to recognize in our specific case what are the dangers on that path so what are dangerous attachments are that we can understand by individualizing the application of scriptural study