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A state of detachment: "If I have it, I have it; if I don't, I don't", there comes a moment when, if your state =What is quite sincere and you really need something (it must not be a fancy or a desire or a caprice but a true need), automatically the thing comes to you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-may-1951#p4</ref>Detachment?=

Detachment means standing back with part of the consciousness and observing what is being done without being involved in it. It is to have the soul free from craving and attachment. It is to be rid of "I-ness" and "my-ness" so as to live in the one Self and act in the one Self; to reject the egoism of refusing to work through the individual centre of the universal Being as well as the egoism of serving the individual mind .<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and life and body to -the exclusion of others.-witness-attitude#p2</ref>

To be free from all attachment does not mean running away from all occasion for attachment. All these people who assert their asceticism, not only run away but warn others not to try! This seems so obvious to me. When you need to run away from a thing in order not to experience it, it means that you are not above it, you are still on the same level. Anything that suppresses, diminishes or lessens cannot bring freedom. Freedom has to be experienced in Detachment is the whole beginning of life and in all sensations. As a matter of fact I have made a whole series of studies on the subjectmastery, on the purely physical plane.... In order to but for complete mastery there should be above no reactions at all possible error, we tend to eliminate any occasion for error. For example, if you do not want to say any useless words, you stop speaking; people who take a vow of silence imagine that this When there is control of speech—it is not true! It is only eliminating something within undisturbed by the occasion for speech and therefore for saying useless things. It is reactions that means the same thing with food: eating only what inner being is necessary. In the transitional state we have reached, we no longer want to lead this entirely animal life based on material exchange free and food; but it would be foolish to believe that we have reached a state where the body can subsist entirely without food—nevertheless there is already a great difference, since they are trying to find the essential nutrients in things in order to lessen the volumemaster of itself. But the natural tendency is to fast—it is a mistake!<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1030/aphorisminner-103detachment-104and-105the-106witness-107attitude#p8,p9,p10,p11</ref>

To become indifferent to the attraction The pratice of outer objects is detachment will make one of the first rules of Yogalive in a consciousness above above pain and pleasure, suffering and happiness, for this non-attachment liberates the inner being into peace enthusiasm and the true consciousnessdepression.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace#</ref> To lead Hence one tastes the spiritual life … delight of the first point is to overcome, all the attachments, for all these are absolutely contrary to the spiritual lifedivine consciousness.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1308/conditions17-foroctober-admission</ref> Detachment is the ESSENTIAL condition for the establishment of true Harmony in the most material Matter—the most external1956#p6,p7,p8,p9, physical Matter <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/january-31-1961#p11p10</ref>

The initial advantage Detachment allows to reach a level of this process of detachment is that one begins to understand one's own nature and all Nature. The detached Witness is able to see entirely without perfection, where nothing interferes with the least blinding by egoism the play of her modes freedom of the Ignorance and to pursue soul or draws it into all away from its ramifications, coverings and subtleties—for it is full of camouflage and disguise and snare and treachery and ruseurge towards the Self or its poise in the Self. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-threerelease-from-modessubjection-ofto-the-naturebody#p12p8</ref>

=How to Practice Detachment?=

"How did I happen to attach any importance to that?"... if you can realise that first and then realise your little person which is … not even a second in eternity... you see the utter ridiculousness of the importance you attach to what happened to you... Truly you feel... to what an extent it is absurd to attach any importance to one's life, To be able to oneself, organise and to what happen to you…. One can get rid of all attachments …. in this way. You have only to imagine carry out everything that has been done before with utmost care and all that will be done later attention and yet remain free from all that is happening now, and you will then realise that your action is a breath, like this, one second in eternity, desire and you can no longer be attached to itattachment."<ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/0612/29the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-septemberconquering-1954it#p34p9,p10</ref>

About the attachment to thingsA moment comes when one must absolutely separate oneself from all this [darkness and stupidity and wrong movements], the physical rejection of them because only when one has separated oneself and become quite conscious that one is not the best way there that one is THAT, only then can one come down again to get rid of change itall. Accept what is given youNot to forsake it, ask for what is needed and think no more of it—attaching no importance, using them when you have, not troubled if you have not. That is the best way of getting rid of the attachmentbut to be its master.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/3104/desirenovember-20-1963#p14p77</ref>

When one wants to detach oneself from something, from a certain movement or activity or state of consciousness, this is the most effective method; one steps back a little, watches the thing like that, as one would watch a scene in a play, and one doesn't intervene. And a moment later, the thing doesn't concern you any longer, it is something which takes place outside you. Then you become very calm.

Enjoy your material possessions One can get rid of all attachments by realising that we are so little in such spirit the eternity of detachment that you will things. What we give so much importance to is not be overjoyed by gaineven a second in eternity. We must move out of the “I-ness” and “My-ness” and widen ourselves.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p34</ref> ==Detachment in Daily Life== For so long as we work with attachment to the result, nor cast down by lossthe sacrifice is offered not to the Divine, is but to our ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/equality-and-the-annihilation-of-ego#p2</ref> But for one who follows the test path of its realityaction,—not to create in himself this complete detachment from the mere flight from their presencefruit of action, which to act because this is simply a flight from temptation. The Karmayogin has what must be done, to remain do it in the world & conquer it; he is best possible way, and not allowed to flee from be anxious about the scene of conflict and shun consequences, to leave the battleconsequences to a Will higher than his own. <ref>http://incarnateword. His part in life is /cwm/08/10-october-1956#p15</ref> To become indifferent to the part attraction of outer objects. This non-attachment liberates the inner being into peace and the hero,—the true consciousness. It is only when one quality he must possess, is sees the lionlike courage Divine in all things that will dare to meet its spiritual enemies in objects get a value for the Yoga, but even then not for their own country sake or as objects of desire, but for the sake of the Divine within and citadel as a means of the divine work and tread them down under its heelmanifestation.<ref>http://incarnateword. A in/cwsa/29/peace#</ref> It is not by abstaining from food that you can make a spiritual abandonment thenprogress. It is by being free,—for the body not only matters as the case of the spiritfrom all attachment and all desire and preoccupation with food, but even from all need for it; it is by being in the spirit on state in which the Karmayogin must concentrate his effortall these things are so foreign to your consciousness that they have no place there.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/1709/the12-lawjune-1957#p5</ref> One must arrive at a complete separation of one’s consciousness from these feelings of the body and its acceptance of illness and from that separated consciousness act upon the body. It is only so that these things can be got rid ofor at least neutralised. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-renunciationhealth#p17p106</ref>