Ātmaśatakam: Verse 3 Part 1 na me dvesarāgau na me lobhamohau mado naiva me naiva mātsaryabhāvaH | na dharmo na cārtho na kāmo na mokshaH cidānandarūpaH śivoham śivoham || 3|| I do not have likes, dislikes, greed and delusion. I do not have pride, neither do I have jealousy. I do not have pursuit of dharma, artha, kāma or mokùa. I am of the nature of consciousness and limitlessness. I am Śiva, the auspicious. I am Śiva, the supreme happiness. Na me dvesarāgau. These rāga or likes and dvesa or dislikes are also not mine. Not only am I not the mind, but the mind is not mine either. As a matter of fact, I am not even related to it. Even though for the purposes of vyavahāra, the interaction with the world, we do say that this body and this mind are mine, but there is actually no relationship. There is no relationship with the mind because I am totally asangaH, unconnected to anything. I do not have a form. I do not have a characteristic or attribute, and therefore, I am not connected to anything at all. Can space be connected to any object? Can it be connected to a pot? Space is unconnected, unattached. So also, awareness, which I am, is unattached to anything. Rāga is attachment. What is attachment? Attachment is the feeling that I cannot do without something. If I cannot do without a cup of tea, it can be said that I am attached to tea. It is one thing to use a car, for instance, but it is another thing to be attached to it. Attachment makes me dependent. You must learn to distinguish between love and attachment. I am attached to my son, if I cannot do without my son. In attachment there is dependence, there is demand, and there is hurt. I love someone, and that someone does not love me in return. If my love also evaporates, “Why should I bother, if he does not care?”, then it is an example of attachment, not love. There can also be disappointment in attachment. “I did so much for him, but he does not care for me at all!” That means that there is an expectation of reward for what I have done.
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