Detachment as a concept and as a word is probably used more often and in many situations these days and hence it’s also abused or misused.. As someone who is eternally striving to be detached, this perspective also can be read and yes judged and criticized. Being detached about this piece of writing is not ok.
The year 2011, people have become savages to comfort and technology and rightfully so. The press of the button or the switch or its equal is the way of life and the habit is so deep and vast that we don’t know any other way to live. The first such luxury was probably the bulb which used to glow with the press of the switch and then the fan and all the electrical appliances. It reduced the pains of lighting the home with a cumbersome process. That was just the beginning. Remember, or know the first time, we heard about the press of a button and how the scooter starts. We didn’t have to kick was a huge relief. We have travelled from there to now ATM’s , black berries , freaky digital camera and appliances , to i pads, i phones to most technology and comfort that needs the use of fingers to get anything done or derive any happiness. In that sense we are all more attached. This attachment has got in us the massive taken for granted attitude in just about everything and with that is the lineage of impatience and non tolerance. We don’t want to know or we tend to forget all alternative methods to get our things done.
Why should we be detached when everything is literally at our finger tips? Money can buy all of these and as the cliché goes it can’t buy the peace and happiness. We are talking of the mind when we talk about detachment and we are also meaning actual engagement of mind to have a detached feeling, until it becomes a habit. But the contrast is all technology is making our mind dull and drab. We don’t even need to memorize or remember as we have google. We don’t need to store anything as you tube does the job. Can anyone criticize these 2 wonders of modern world? Instead everyone might say to hell with detachment.....if it comes to preferring detachment to these wonders. This is still fair enough. What if the photon or data cards or internet fails on a day and people can’t access net? what if ATM crashes for a day and what if banks and all net processed activities go out of order for 2 days ?If life is so uncertain, can any of these be certain? Why is the dependency then, which is the root of attachment to anything in life. Dependency assumes taken for granted attitude and beings with it intolerance and impatience.
The only 2 things that we can take for granted and survive is mother and god.. For both these entities we have scant respect and for all other which can crash like pack of cards, we depend, we trust, we swear and we live by it. Understanding the 2 entities, means understanding of the detachment. One can read and know tons of articles and hundreds of books and listen to volumes of speeches on detachment. But the realization that detachment is the key for happiness for all can be experienced genuinely by understanding mother and god. Both of them have several qualities in abundance of which, sacrifice, empathy, understanding, immense patience, undeterred tolerance is few of them. They never expect anything in return and just keep giving in the respite that children’s happiness is their happiness. This quality of giving is more detached than anything that any scriptures can teach. Never ignore them and keep respecting and praying to be grounded and know the true essence of life. There are mothers and there are people with motherly qualities. There is hardly any difference.
Enjoy the comfort, live on the advancement of technology, and freak out on the best gadgets and lifestyle. But only the blend and balance of traditional thought, living and values with the modernity will give happiness and peace. The former teaches to separate pain from the product (Detachment) and the latter gives the immediate and momentary happiness. Painlessness is detachment and that will make us happy forever and ever. Detachment is never indifference nor does it have any negative attributes.
In fact detachment always multiplies the pleasure of anything as we are never feeling in secured of losing them as we don’t own anything in strict sense, not even our body on which we spend all our life. Body including fingers get us attached and soul consciousness which is permanent helps us to detach. In fact for all the rationalists detachment is actually the maintenance of individual identity without being arrogant, indifferent or egoistic. Everyone got to know, read and practise this mantra to have the everlasting happiness, peace and health.
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