Comment to 'Detachment (vairagya) in Yoga'
  • Detachment in this sense is a soothing balm all over the self. It is the acceptance by the sense of identity that its machinations have failed after ions of enforcement, and now it may accept providence as the figurehead.

     

    This is a tedious affair and a very gradual aspect to tread on the path of noticing incremental improvements in different settings and situations. One may remember and realize, how bad their reactions would have been in some situation, or how inconsolable they acted when their will is not done.

     

    I want to dearly and intimately augment my sense of seeing myself as utterly dispensable for any circumstance I partake in, in particular family situation which is so present and so natural. How will my compulsions deal with my-self at that moment (just around the corner) when I transition permanently out of this present form?

     

    This whole show from this perspective ought to come to a stop, and will I be able to just turn my back on circumstances and their perceived effects on my social self? Should I become able to exercise sufficient detachment, I might here-now and thereafter preserve the interest of the self, and not victimize it by what is now a natural impulse to gloat over successes or wins and shun defeat or losses.

     

    Detachment is a fundamental live illustration of advancement when it comes to transcending and genuinely understanding and accepting reality as distinct from one’s essence. Yoga when considered in this most singular application of the terminology of the word is quintessential for demanding and allowing a discerning of the self from all other forms of energies; including emotions of attachment and multifacetedness of relations.  

     

    Furthermore, attachment is really just entitlement from the stand point of this yoga that pushes for soul segregation and isolation from all else. So I may ask myself the degree and depth of my condition for now seeing me in a position to actually claim anything whatsoever including this very body, an aggregate of materialistically consumed community propriety. So I may ask how not to increase my delirium of identifying, growing, protruding and lording, before the curtains are finally drawn on this act.