My Guruji never recommended total detachment from worldly affairs. He only said to avoid undue attachment.
In fact, he encouraged us to integrate both spiritual and material aspects of our existence.
When it comes to meditation, it is totally a different ball game. It fulfills one great purpose.
It connects your lower self with the higher self. It connects your mind with the heart.
It connects your being with the ultimate being and when it remains in tune, in resonance, and in union.
We call it yoga, union of myself with my maker. That is true Yoga.
If we refer to Gita, there is one common thread there, and the essence of it is -
Lord Krishna is invoking and provoking Arjuna to wake up from his ignorance
and come to some realisation and do his duty. But the ultimate essence is a message
for posterity: yogah karmasu kausalam. It is only through
yoga that all your activities then kaushalam (excellence). If you want to excel as a student,
see what meditation can do. If you want to be a better teacher, meditate and see how well you can plan.
Through yoga through such meditation, our actions become, I would not say perfect, but nearly perfect.
We are striving to become perfect. The Master is also striving his best to achieve that perfection,
not only in himself, but in his work as well, that how much I should change my work style
so that my work becomes more effective.
Everyone is trying their best to make it perfect, better and better all the time.
Someone came yesterday talking about her mother.
She was telling me, “I'm too much attached to my mother”. So I asked her, “what is wrong with it?
She is your mother. Who else would you be attached to otherwise?”
In Sahaj Marg, we have a different meaning to non-attachment and detachment,
the so-called fundas of yoga literature. We don't believe in this sort of a thing.
A mother is a mother, shower your love as much as possible, maximum possible.
Even when you disagree with her, do what she wants you to do, go the full length and by following her,
obeying her, it is not going to hurt us.
It may be a slight inconvenience, but you will make her happy.
And we learn this sort of love from our mother, and then we can replicate this with others,
but if I'm not able to share this love with my mother, how am I going to replicate it in my community?
That is why in Sahaj Marg we recommend a family life, you don't become monks
and run away from the society.
We try to lead a well balanced life, performing our duties, very well rather.
To be born as a human does not automatically make us human. Rather it gives us the potential,
a possibility to become fully human. Having become fully human we gain new potential.
As new horizons open up in front of us, we can go further and become divinised.
So from animal-humans, we have the possibility to become human-humans and
then divine-humans. Divinity is at the core of all beings,
in that sense the idea of divinisation is absurd.
But to unite with that Divinity and manifest it on all levels, that is something else entirely.
Attachment and detachment are some of the most misunderstood concepts in yoga.
My Guruji never recommended total detachment from worldly affairs.
He always said to avoid undue attachment.
In fact, he encouraged us to integrate both spiritual and material aspects of our existence.
Without a certain level of attachment, you cannot fulfill your worldly duties,
which are stressed so much in Gita. It is only undue attachment that entangles us.