Yesterday I gave the example of a Sadhu for showing what detachment is. I would like to describe the life of a Sadhu a bit more in detail on the one hand to give an idea how Indian culture is and on the other hand to show with how little one can live. There are still millions of people in India who are living this life. Like I said yesterday, they do not have any attachment. Neither with people, places or things. If you ask any Sadhu what his birth place is or who are his parents, he will be annoyed and even offended. Everybody knows that he doesn’t want to talk about it because he has detached himself from all of this. There is a saying: They live under a tree and eat in the hand. Especially in Vrindavan it is a holy tradition and very beautiful thing to feed Sadhus when they come to your door. In my childhood one Sadhu was coming more often to us. A Sadhu comes and knocks on the door, but he will not come in. The owner will feel honoured as though God came personally. They will happily give him as much as he can take in his hands because he will not take a plate. My Mum always gave him roti, the Indian bread, on top of that rice, on top of that vegetables and on top of that daal, which is lentil soup. She gave him as much as he could hold and he ate it out of his hands. And please be aware that this is not considered as begging. Everybody will be happy to feed him. He lives a life in which he doesn't even have attachment with food. He chose only to devote himself and to be with his God, to do spiritual practice. He doesn't have any luggage; he is just living like this, bathing in river. Sadhus try to reduce their necessities as much as possible and wander from town to town so that they do not get attached to places, either. And everybody can choose this life. I even know someone who was a very successful lawyer, a very rich man who had everything that money can buy, and he became Sadhu. He was very happy with this choice to leave his home and to devote himself fully to this spiritual practice.