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Attachment means that you desire or need or depend on a thing or a person so much that you cannot do without it or him, and are always trying to keep the thing or be with the person or somehow in touch with him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/inadvisability-of-forming-special-relations#p8</ref>
Attachment to things : the physical rejection of them is not the best way to get rid of it. Accept what is given you, ask for what is needed and think no more of it - attaching no importance, using them when you have, not troubled if you have not. That is the best way of getting rid of the attachment. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/transformation-of-the-vital-xi#p20</ref>
==Austerity==
Austerity, spiritual discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-265-266-267-268-269#p7</ref>
A premature and excessive physical austerity, tapasyā, may endanger the process of the sadhana by establishing a disturbance and abnormality of the forces in the different parts of the system. A great energy may pour into the mental and vital parts, but the nerves and the body may be overstrained and lose the strength to support the play of these higher energies.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/transformation-of-the-physical-v#p34</ref>
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