If we watch the movie which is our mind like a spectator, a witness, without identifying with it, without condemning it, with total disinterest, then we will find the whole movie dropping away. Before long, it disappears. And by and by the witnessing consciousness alone remains, without any object before it. This objectless awareness is alone, and it is aloneness. And one who attains to this aloneness attains to non-attachment. The very experiencing of this consciousness, empty and alone, is non-attachment. The behavior of a man of non-attachment will be radically different from others, and this behavior is called Anasakti Yoga or the discipline of non-attachment. He accepts everything- like a mirror- without attachment or dislike. Now he knows for himself what self-nature is, what non-attachment is. He knows that self-nature and non-attachment are inseparably together, and he also knows that attachment and aversion are just behavioral.
Having known and understood the Anasakti in depth, his behavior towards outside world will be radically different. For him the world has ceased to be what it was before. His consciousness has undergone a mutation. A man of such consciousness will relate with people and things but he will not enter into relationships involving attachment or aversion. He will mix in society, but his aloneness will remain inviolate and untouched. His mirror of consciousness will reflect both love and war, but in itself will remain unaffected by either. He will no more remain a doer but he will be an actor on the stage of life. If Krishna is anything, he is an actor- a superb actor at that. There has never been a greater and more skilled actor in the whole world history of mankind. He is incomparable even as an actor- he who turned the whole world into a stage. If a wooden stage can be used for a performance, why not the whole world is? The world is turned into a leela, a theatrical performance. We all can play our roles as actors and performers. An actor weeps and laughs, but tears and laughter don’t bind him. When he loves he does not love, when he fights he does not fight. He is never involved in the roles as us the worldly people. He plays the friend and foe without being involved in friendship and enmity.
The life one, who treats everything as play-acting becomes a triangle, a complete triangle. Ordinarily our life is only two points of triangle, while the third is submerged in darkness. While the two points of triangle, the aversion and attachment are functioning and visible, the third angle of non-attachment is shrouded in darkness. A person of non-attachment brings this third side into light, and the triangle becomes complete. In reality, he exists in the third point, and to be on this third point is called anasakti or non-attachment.
Wishing you good health and happiness,
Dr. Dwarakanath, Director, Mitran foundation- the stress management
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