Loving Detachment

 

Loving Detachment

It was Pujya Gurudev Daaji's suggestion that every abhyasi should write an article on the above subject after contemplating on it. This suggestion was part of the message given on the occasion of Basant on Feb 3, 2025 at Kanha Shanti Vanam, the Global Headquarters of Heartfulness.

Taking as an order from Beloved Gurudev, I attempt to share my little understanding so far about "Loving detachment".

According to the Masters of Sahaj Marg, humans should direct their love ONLY towards God. When human love is directed towards God it becomes an unconditional love or divine love. This love is very sacred and beyond the carnal love, the sibling love, the parental love, the brotherly love etc. these being at the lower end of the Love spectrum. 

Directing Love to the Divine or God or attaching oneself to the Divine within, naturally results in detachment of all unwanted thing on the way. This is also called the detached attachment to the divine. All bondages or attachments are loosened through this attachment to the Divine within. This I feel is the Loving detachment that happens as a consequence of heartfulness practices though we continue to love in a pure way. Real Love is free from all attachments.

This is naturally made to happen through simple and effective heartfulness practices of Meditation, Cleaning and Prayer.

Meditation teaches us how to hold on to the Divine Presence within and slowly it becomes our second nature.

Cleaning helps us to get rid of all the obstacles, attachments and reinforces the process of holding on to the Divine.

Prayer helps us to surrender to the Divine and thus refines the being handling the guilt that cannot be handled by Meditation and Cleaning. It thus reinforces the Loving detachment. 

Attachment to the Divine Presence within results in Loving detachment with all the other worldly attachments that are hinderances to God realization. In fact, we are detached from all these with an attitude pure Love that and thus refining the performance of handling them. In some way, we deal with worldly attachments with the absolute perspective of unconditional Love.

Some thoughts on Spirituality

 Some thoughts on Spirituality

Let's do some soul-searching: do we really need God? Or are we 'thinking' that we need God? We need to answer this very honestly to ourselves. Then begins the real journey of Spirituality. Do we really crave for Him? if yes, for what?

Some thoughts on Spirituality

Actually in my understanding of Spirituality, it is Universal, an approach to go beyond everything. There cannot be Spirituality without Meditation. And hence Spirituality is synonymous with Meditation; they go together.

Let's explore Meditation. nd its purpose. It is an evergreen topic and almost the buzz word of today as someone said.

The very purpose of any Meditation is to regulate the ever-wavering mind; It is all about regulating the thought traffic. Meditation is also about transcendence to go Beyond into higher realms of Consciousness, that can makes one a better and better human being and then turn into a Divine being. In fact, the mind helps one to evolve his/her Consciousness if regulated.

The purpose of life is To Evolve Everything in this Creation is evolving Consciously or Unconsciously. Evolution is a Natural process. Therefore Nature always supports Evolution. A Spiritual Process is one that helps one to Evolve Consciously; and one will discover the cooperation Nature immensely. A Spiritual process or an ideal method of Meditation helps the seeker to hasten this process of Evolution. And human being is the privileged creature that evolve consciously and attain greater evolutionary heights. There is no end for Evolution.

 

Gross, Subtle and Causal Bodies

The human system comprises of Gross, Subtle and Causal Bodies. Gross body is the physical body; Subtle Body or bodies mainly are Mind, Intellect, Ego and Consciousness. Causal body is the subtlest body without whose presence, the other two bodies do not exist.

 

What is that which evolves in this human system

Gross body or the physical body cannot evolve; it can only age. Its evolution if at all is very limited. Causal body or the Soul/Atma is already said to be pure and therefore nothing to evolve. Therefore it is only the Subtle body that evolves and has no limitations whatsoever.

 

Three States of Consciousness that a man dwells in

There are three levels in which a human being dwells generally:

1) Waking State (Jaagrudavastha)

2) Dream State (Swapnavastha)

3) Deep-sleep state (Sushupti avastha)

There are other states that can be achieved through yogic processes such as Meditation:

4) The Fourth State (Turiya)

5) The Turiyaateet

and beyond; there is no end.

  

Evolution of Consciousness

As said earlier, it is the subtle bodies that evolve viz., Mind Intellect, Ego and Consciousness. Chit, Manas, Buddhi, and Ahankar in Sanskrit. All these 4 Subtle bodies are collectively called Antahkaran in Sanskit. It is the evolution of Antahkaran that happens through systematic Meditation techniques under an able guide.

Chit or Consciousness can be understood as sky in which Mind (Manas), Intellect (Buddhi) and go (Ahankar) are embedded just as planets are embedded in sky. Therefore when the Mind, Intellect and Ego are purified, there is evolution in Consciousness to that extent.