A Lesson in Detachment

Why are you unnecessarily worrying?
Whom do you fear?
Who can you kill?
Soul is not born, nor does it die.

What has happened has happened for the best.
What is happening is happening for the best.
What will happen will happen for the best.

Do not brood over the past.
Do not worry about the future.
The present is on.

What have you lost that you are weeping?
What have you brought, that you have lost?
What have you made that has been destroyed?

You brought not anything.
What you have, you got from here.
What was given, was given here.
What you took you took from the universe.
You have come empty handed and shall go empty handed.

What is yours today was somebody else’s in the past and will be somebody else’s in the future.
You think it is yours and you are deeply engrossed in it.
This attachment is the cause of all your sorrow.

Change is the law of life.

What you call death is life itself.

In a moment you are a millionaire, in the next you are a poor man.
Mine-yours; small-big; ours-theirs.
Remove this from your mind, then everything is yours and you are everybody’s.

~Sri Bhagavad Gita~