ABSOLUTE ATTACHMENT IS REALISATION

IN THE WORDS OF SADHGURU...

Many so-called spiritual teachings are given that essentially say, attachment is bad, so do not get attached to anything. These kinds of teachings and misunderstandings have come because of the pain people go through with attachment. Teachings of detachment and being desire-less come because of the fear of entanglement. Entanglement always creates pain and suffering within a person. So, somebody gave this foolish solution - be detached. According to them, the solution for life is to avoid life! If someone wants to avoid life, you have to choose death! It is very simple. Being alive but wanting to die and not dying is going to be torturous. If you want to live, you need involvement.

People think spirituality means dropping your wife, husband or family. But please see, this has nothing to do with spirituality. You will anyway want to drop them when it becomes inconvenient. You do not become spiritual by dropping someone. The biggest attachment you have is not your wife, child, bank balance or something else - it is your personality. This is what you need to throw. Your deepest sense of attachment is to your own thought and emotion. You may argue, "No, my wife, job and child are dear to me." But when your wife, child or the situations around you really go against the way you think and feel, you will drop all of them. You will not drop your ways of thinking and feeling but you will drop the other person because the other person has stopped fitting into your life. They are in your life only because they have made the compromise to agree with whatever you think and feel.