When
it is about detachment as an essential virtue to the spirituality
some people worry and
speak about the utility to take advantage of its senses, the beauty
which they see to get involved in this world and in the human
relations.
The same do not understand that we are wary of the race to the money. They explain that a house where to live is neede and an automobile to move and ask to what would be of use long studies if you should not hope to remove from it legitimate returns on investment etc.
They
also say that it is necessary to love his spouse, his parents, his
children and his friends, that to remain a solitary person and poor
is not desirable. They are right!
The detachment is not the
lack of interest, the insensitivity,
the misanthropy nor the
social banishment.
There is the indifference
and, what in India we named,
the real detachment.
To
want to increase your Conscience doesn’t mean going in the middle
of the forest to live in hermit there. The spiritual life doesn’t
prevent from liking the countryside rather than the city, from being
interested in the Sumerian civilization, from being crazy about the
soccer nor to find your neighbor charming.
The
real detachment, that of a well understood spirituality, is the
awareness of what is essential and of what is not. Be the owner of a
beautiful house, with a big garden is not a problem, a problem is
when your happiness depends on this house. One day a flood can
destroy it. Will find yourselves completely downcast and crying
saying: " my life is over ! " ?
That
is applicable for everything: an automobile, furniture, a social
position. You can acquire these properties and take advantage of them
but basing everything on them is the unconsciousness: all these
things can be removed from you all at once. Possess the things but
don’t let them possess you.
It
is as sentimental love: this feeling is essential for the
human-beings. When he is missing love he becomes crazy and goes out
as an ember on which nobody blows.
But to depend on a person to have this love is dangerous! Imagine: this person leaves you letting with your love for her/him. This love made sterile becomes suffering. This position is dangerous. The fear of losing this love makes you jealous and ends up making it lose.
In
you there is inexhaustible source of satisfaction
How
to reach the true detachment?
Not
by making the detachment a moral,
intellectual
posture nor by trying hard.
It
comes when you found the source of the Peace
and
the Love inside you.
It
is the purpose of the path.
"The
detachment opens the door of the Kingdom, the indifference closes it
"
[Bhaktimàrga
1-5-12]
