Truth in a Nutshell

Rich and Poor

Rabbi Moshe Leib said:

How easy it is for a poor man to depend on God! What else has he to depend on? And how hard it is for a rich man to depend on God! All his possessions call out to him: ‘Depend on us!’
_{Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim, Part II, The Later Masters}

If we are attached to the world, whether we have made any spiritual progress or not, or even if we have made some spiritual progress, but if we have very strong desires, strong attachments to the world, then we may very likely be pulled back to the level of those desires – to the level of those attachments.
Actually, it is attachment which brings us back; it pulls us back to the world. But we can only detach ourselves from these attachments or from these desires when we are able to attach ourselves to that Holy Spirit within ourselves. Without the help of that Holy Spirit, that Shabd, that Nam, it’s very difficult for us to detach ourself from this world.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Thus Saith the Master}