PRICE OF ATTACHMENT

This apparent world is a creation of the mind, Swami Brahmananda said.  The mind has conjured it up; it is its author.

There is a story in the famous devotional Vedic scripture the Bhagavata Purana that tells of a king who loved his pet deer so much that after the deer’s death he himself was reborn as a deer.

As you think, so you create, is the moral of the story.  Thus, one should not become so attached to an object in the world, and indeed to the world itself, lest he become that object or that world the next time around.