Gita's Yoga of Detachment
"Yog" has various meanings. Grammatically speaking, the word "Yog" has three primary applications -
1) "Yujir Yoge" relation - i.e. Eternal relationship with God
2) "Yuj Samaadhou" - In a state of "Samadhi" (deep absorption in meditative state)
3) "Yuj samyamne" - a state of self restraint i.e influence of capability and competence.
In this way, there is all three, relationship, meditative trance and capability, in the word "Yog". Although in Gita, the above mentioned word "Yoga" can mean either of the three, it has mainly been used to mean eternal relationship (eternal union) with God.
Tam vidhyad dukhsamyogaviyogam yogasangitam | (Gita 6/23)
The separation from the assumed union with pain (travails of worldly life) is called Yoga.
All the relations in this world, they are all-in-all going to separate, all the union in this world will become dis-union. That which appears as union right now, it was not there at one time, and later on as well it will not be there. Only in the middle it appears as union. In this the union is impermanent and the separation is eternal. The separation with the world is constant, and union with God is constant. Therefore there is only separation with the world and there is union with God and union with God itself is disunion with the world. Whether we accept or not , whether we believe or not, whether we give attention to it or not, our relationship with God is Eternal. Why are we not able to experience this eternal relationship?
The reason we have developed attachment to that whose separation is at all times and it is so without any doubt. We know the body, the wealth, the family, the honor-respect, the dishonor-disrespect etc will not remain, rather it will go away, we know that its separation is a certainty, then too by mistake we have created a fondness for these things, in other words, we have developed attachment to these things and have created an eternal relationship with them. If we develop detachment towards these things then we will realize our eternal relationship with Paramatma (God).
No one has ever had a disunion with Paramatma, nor will they ever have, it is impossible for that to happen. Therefore the Yoga of Detachment means - that which we have never been united with, at present there is no union with it, and in the future there never will be any union with that, there is no possibility of any union with that, become disconnected from that, let there be objectivity from that world and let one realize the eternal union (relationship) with Paramatma.
When attachment is wiped out, the eternal disconnection (non-existence) of the world and connection (existence) of Paramatma will be realized.
It has been said in the Gita -
Naasato vidhyate bhaavo, naabhaavo vidhyate satah | (Gita 2/16)
"the unreal has no existence and the real never ceases to be, the truth of both has been perceived by the seers of truth." Gita (2/16),
The point is that the non-existence of the unreal things is constant and the existence of the real thing is constant. Even though right now it appears as if there is union with the world, but in the end it will lead to disunion. Though it appears that there is disunion with Paramatma, there is eternal union only. Let that union that we have assumed with the perishable continue on - this desire itself is the main obstacle in eternal union. To be continued)
From book in Hindi "Jit Dekhu Tit Tu" By Swami Ramsukhdasji
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