Late Night Chat with Margi Connor & Peter Goodman: Attachments, March 30, 2023, on Baba Zoom

Late night chat centered around our Beloved. A sharing of hearts led by Margi Connor and Peter Goodman.

Jai Baba!

I would love to dive into the topic of attachments this week. We all have different sanskaras that lead us to have different experiences and perceptions of our life. Although we are attached to different people, places, or things, we all have one in common. That is the attachment to ourselves and who we think we are.

Throughout our lives with Baba, He unwinds our attachment to different things. He often takes things from us that we have hinged our reality on to remind us that He is the only Reality. I have often thought of this analogy when it comes to life with Baba. It is as if He gives us a white board and tells us to draw the most beautiful picture we can possibly create. Once the picture is finished and we are so proud of the product, He takes His hand and wipes it all off, saying, "Okay, now do it again." Often we are left heartbroken, pleading with Him to bring it back, and complaining to Him how we poured our heart into it.

I feel this is how He breaks down our attachment to the lives we create. We have to keep drawing a more and more beautiful picture each time, without getting attached to the final picture. We have to do it for Him, and if it is for Him, He has every right to wipe the board clean whenever He likes. In theory, this is easy, but sometimes we can't quite shake the attachments we have to things. Have you struggled with this?

Baba, afterall, is the creator and destroyer of attachments. Doesn't He have the power to give and take away all your desire for things? Sometimes it feels as if He uses our extreme attachments to things to do our work. For example, if you are someone who is attached to the idea of being successful, wouldn't that allow Baba to use your resources for His work later on? Of course, it is our job to give everything to Baba, but don't we have to trust that He will take things in His timing? Perhaps, He needs that attachment, you can't quite shake.

Recently, I have tried to get to a place of self acceptance with the attachments I have. I have gotten into the habit of saying, "Baba, I have an attachment to this, if it is your Wish, will you remove it?" I feel this gives me the surrenderance and trust that if I do feel an attachment to something it is because He wants me to follow it for His work. Have your attachments ever served Baba in ways you couldn't imagine? Did He take something away, just in His "delayed" timing?

I can't wait to see where this chat goes!

In His Love,

Margi and Peter

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