Let go! The word won’t turn upside down. Here’s a great definition of Aparigraha

It’s a few weeks that I am looking for the right resonance in words with the concept of Aparigraha- non possessiveness, non hoarding. I heard this word a few years ago for the first time in an Anusara yoga class and ever since, I just love it!

Try it out: say it loud within your heart and then out and louder and louder. Don’t you get happy just by saying this word? Ok, I do!

So what does it mean? Here is the definition I found today on the Voice of the Vedas which I really like:

Live simply. To live in aparigraha is to strip your life down to its essentials. At the material level, the secret of optimized living is to use your resources efficiently, so that you achieve maximum results with minimum expenditure. When you live with minimal resources, you automatically learn to operate at peak performance. At the mental level, aparigraha is the courage to live with minimum beliefs or preconceptions. Only the courageous can live without beliefs, because it means that you will have to contact life every moment as it happens. At the spiritual level, aparigraha means living with no other support than the Divine. Obviously, this does not mean you will give up your job or your family. Aparigraha only means that you will live life with simplicity, discipline and tremendous internal freedom.

Aparigraha!  Let go and have fun.