Disentanglement vs detachment:
In these modern times, the one person who
makes practical sense in terms of interpreting old values seems to be Sadguru.
The important point to note is that everything comes back to each succeeding
generation in a new package, with a certain twist.
One day, I was having a discussion on
attachment with my guru and telling him how I wished to be detached like sadhus
like him are. And he had smiled and said," even sadhus have attachments. I
was a little thrown by that statement, purely because of my own mindset which I
had cultivated by reading old texts and listening to many lectures of spiritual
orators. Sometimes, introspection on some statements can fall short and belief
systems formed by half knowledge.
Sadguru explains very convincingly that if
you think detachment is what you are here for, you can find ways of dying right
now, because you are not here to learn detachment. If you are not attached, how
would you experience life, the purpose for which you were born? The reason we
suffer is not due to attachment but the mind getting entangled with people,
situations, and emotions.
When that happens, you cannot extricate
yourself from the experience whereas the idea is to experience and move on.
We can even call it living each moment
completely. And living IN the moment each minute and moving ahead with a clean
slate each time and from each experience. Somewhat like the magic white board
which turns white every time, after being written on in many different colors.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog:
www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
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