surreal

Worth...Ravan sought it from his throne...and ended up devastated...shurpanakha sought it from a man and ended up mutilated...Vali sought it from his revenge...and ended up decieted...Ram sought it from his subjects and ended up unrequited. This process of seeking worth from the act of possession is what enslaves the person who seeks it. The king who boasts over his throne's possession actually enslaves himself to his association with the throne. The moment the throne goes away...there follows his worth. In our day to day transactions of knowledge, money, power and other such manifestations we fail to keep the subtle gap between possession and witnessing. We try to accumulate, posess and then hoard on the things that we witness. And then later from this pile of our possession we derive our worth. We fail to realise that in this process of attaching our worth to something external to us, we render ourselves vulnerable to becoming unworthy subjected to the tainting of our object o