Giving Up Attachments
Excerpt from GIVING UP ATTACHMENTS
GURURAJ ANANDA YOGI: No one asks you to become desireless. No one asks you to be totally non‑attached. The total concept is wrong. Your very nature is such that even the enlightened man must have that two percent attachment, otherwise, he would not be able to exist in a body.
While living in this relative world, you can never be non‑attached. But there is something that one has to remember: while you are attached to this flower or to your beloved one, the craving is also there, and any form of craving produces problems within you. If you want to become detached, (rather than being attached), then you have to go away into some forest and (try to) escape from yourself. That’s detachment.
Non‑attachment can contain a beauty of its own. Philosophies of the world, especially the Eastern ones, will tell us to be non‑attached… non‑attached… non‑attached. But does this mean that you shouldn’t have a love for your loved ones, even your pets? You must have that love because that quality of love within you will bring you to the realization of divinity. We all keep on saying that God is love and love is God. If you detach yourself from love or become non‑attached to love, you automatically become non‑attached to God. What is the sense of this?
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