One day I was struggling with my views on people who are attached to this world. This was likely something bothering me, due to my own attachments. There are times that the Shariyat opens to exactly the right passage. In this case I sat in my meditation space and opened the Shariyat and it randomly opened this passage:

He who is fortunate to gain the attitude of true love shall have independence. Man must remain in this world as long as he has a single duty to perform, but he is not to love the world. He must not become so bound up with duties or family or worldly interests that he forgets his most important interests. He must never forget that one day he will leave friends and all possessions, and he never knows what day he shall be called upon to leave them.

Not only does he leave his own body. He can take nothing with him except his inner possessions. All material things and people belong to the passing show on earth, for they have only a temporary interest. These material possessions are not his own. They have never been, nor ever will be. They are the property of the Kal Niranjan, the king of the negative worlds, and man’s attachment to them is only temporary. He must never regard them as his own, but as a loan to him from the Kal Niranjan for the day, the moment that he may both serve them and use them. When he comes to this attitude, he has reached the vairag.

It’s somewhat special to get hits like this. To flip a book open and land on this page never-before-read. While one could argue that we add to passages we open to, this directly speaks to the “worldly interest” (attachment). Yet another evidence of the work shinning it’s light upon me.