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hi Sachu....
happened to visit ur blog..... gud to c it....

Real love makes us unattached
let me answer... i do not agree to this statement... when it comes to our family.. frens... v love them and v do expect the same from them... how can one say dat real love makes us unattached... i love reading Vivekananda's book... and i did not happen to go thru this particular statement..
God created us to love everyone.. so according to me love towards any sorta thing makes one feel attached and develop a strong bond....and also expect the same from them!!!!

@ kaushik

Hmm…. But if there is no attachment, there won't be any joy in work and life will become a burden and all actions drudgery. Without love, attachment and concentration none can get joy or happiness. Our mind has got into the habit of thinking too much about the fruits of action. We fix a target, a goal, and plan for it and then act. There is no harm in this type of planning. But too much obsession with the fruits, results, of actions leads to attachment and suffering

One example what swami vivekanandha gives is about a nurse. He says every mother should act like a nurse! Just as the nurse gets attached to a child n nurtures it but when it grows a little n starts to be independent the nurse moves away without getting attached to the child in any way because it is her job, her duty, she has to keep moving….

But in reality is any mom like this ? no way!!

Exactly!!! Your mom needs you for their survival, emotional dependency is vital for them at their age.... Hence she is attached to you.....

@ kaushik

ok... if at all i agree to ur statement.... if i dont show back the love n affection my mom needs n move away from her, do u mean she wil not be attached to me nor show interest in my progress!!

not at all......

Hey sachu...great work pal...needhaan yezhudniya ?? lol..makes for very good reading...i remember the swami vivekananda lesson in our 10th eng syllabus ! lol...i guess it took me a while to understand the convoluted meaning behind the philosophy..well i think the mistake most of your readers have made is to misconstrue the meaning of the word ' attachment'..i think by attachment vivekanada meant some kind of expectation or reciprocation. i think most of your readers need to have greater exposure to works of philosophy because the gravest mistake one can make is to go by the superficiality of the philosophy.Therefore, by attachment Vivekananda does not imply ' indifference' but merely a detachment from expecting something in return.Honestly, at that time we were too naive to absorb such a profound lesson but in retrospect , truer words have been seldom said. Keep writing sachu..you seem to be extremely gifted..your writing is easy on the mind at the same time carrying some profound messages..its also good to see that your having fun at work..keep rocking gurl ! cheers !

Im back ! I could not resist writing a little more on the swami vivekananda piece..so here I go..

1.Attachment could also mean obsession..and obsession can stifle relationships..whether it be with your mom, spouse, friend or even with yourself.Note that Vivekananda offers a definition for attachment,well almost “ When u have succeeded in loving your husband, your children, the whole world , the universe in such a manner that there is no reaction of pain or jealousy, no selfish feeling , then you are fit in a state to be unattached” This proves my point. How many of us can love without feeling jealous or insecure ? very few. The feeling of security comes from detachment..detachment not from the person but from the obsessive love for that person..detachment from the trust that we have on that person. Therefore Vivekanand does not prpound detachment from the PERSON but from such suffocating love.

2. Attachment comes only when we expect something in return- Here again, attachment is implied to be ‘ selfish’- in the sense that you attach yourself to the returns and not the actions towards that person or goal- therefore detachment here is advocated not from the person or the goal but merely towards the expectation of returns.

3. Be unattached; let things work ; let brain centers work; work as if u were a stranger in this land; work incessantly but be not attached to it.”- what a profund thought- work as if you were a stranger in this land- strangers have to work harder to make a place for themselves than the people who have established themselves. But strangers have to work to get noticed, to gain recognition, to make stop and take notice. This is what Swami Vivekananda tries to discourage. Work as hard as a stranger but DO NOT do it with the sole intention to get noticed. Do not be attached to such a frivilous goal.Be detached not from work , but from your less than noble intentions.

4. Work but let not the action or the thought produce a deep impression on the mind.”- This is a beautiful line too- Vivekananda’s messge here is to keep an open mind. The more you work the more you will tend to learn. Therefore if you let any one thought or action influence your mind too much you may never learn new things, be open to new experiences, understand different points of view.

Well, there you are..they are actually very beautiful and meaningful lines…it just needs a little dissection…just like every difficult situation in life !

@ merlia

hmm.. never thot that this article would be the most talked abt topic in my blog...

anyways....
guess i was too superficial in trying to analyse his works!

cant accept all ur statement tho!

may be as time goes on i might xperience n find out the truth myself!

and thanks for visiting... hope ud b one of my loyal readers!