The two words
attachment and detachment differs with the first two letters (at, de) but the
meanings are pole apart. When we stick on with something or someone which is
hard for us to leave then it is termed as attachment on the other hand when we
consider things moderately it is called as detachment. Humans are naturally
gifted with the emotions of attachment. When we are born we are too attached
with our mother later with our father and with the members in our family. So the
quality of attachment and love follows us naturally. When years pass by and we
group up as an individual with our own traits we develop our knowledge and
learning. Later on our desire towards all worldly pleasures start to develop
like money, fame and material possessions. When love and desire for material
possessions start to head-up and that is where we start to learn detachment but
in an very wrong sense. We start to detach ourself from the people around us. We think
that love and relationships makes us weak but the real truth is that the
worldly objects and material possessions make our life complicated. In the
desire of earning more and getting more we began to consider our root of
emotions as unwanted ones.
Knowledge should never
overrule our emotions at any point in life because emotions are travelling with
us from our birth but knowledge is the one which we have developed through
learning. So be attached with your emotions like love, kindness, compassion and
gratitude but be detached with the objects and things which you have gained
later in your life.
What to be attached and
what to be detached should be balanced equally. When you detach yourself from
your emotions and that is were life becames complicated because we get connected with
the universe and the supreme being god with our emotion not with our knowledge.
When emotions are cut off we get detached from the universe.
There is a famous quote which says “If love is your weakness then you are the strongest person of this world”. So be
an individual with love and kindness and think before detaching your emotions. As, the flower lotus detaches itself from water but not with the soil and the roots. Roots are always important for anything and humans are born out of the roots of extreme love and it is safe to be attached with the roots.