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So it's not a state of detachment.
I hate the word detachment.
You know you've heard so much talk about detachment
But people don't look into the meaning of the word.
If you're ever interested, just pick up a dictionary and look at the word "detachment".
You'll find something very interesting.
It means something which has become isolated, removed from the whole.
So let's say you have horses which are running attached to a cart.
I can remove the cart from the horses and you can say that the cart has become detached.
Or I can remove the wheel from the cart and I can say that the wheel has become detached.
But that's not involvement.
That's not freedom.
You can be detached but you'll be isolated from life.
That's the whole problem - people already are too detached from life.
They're living in a dream world in their mind, they are not sensitive to life around them.
And they've built very strong walls around them to protect their identity.
They're like islands onto themselves.
And they don't let any new possibility penetrate through those walls.
They're in a state of detachment.
So I don't want to talk about detachment.
I'm talking about total involvement.
Or perhaps a better word for it is "non-entanglement".
Where you can still be totally involved
and yet at the same time totally silent.
Tell me how can you really be in communion with existence unless you're completely involved ?
There was a yogi named Swami Vivekananda.
He was a very well known yogi who made yoga famous for the first time in the United States.
He made a very insightful statement.
He said that you are far closer to the divine kicking a football
than you are chanting sutras and scriptures in a temple.
Because you can chant the sutras
You can chant the scriptures but without any involvement.
But it's very difficult just to do something as simple as kicking a football and not be involved.
Right ?
You can chant the sutras but without any understanding of it's meaning
you have no emotion involved, you have no awareness involved in it
but it's very hard to kick a football and not be involved in it.
I guess that's where the bhakti comes from - with the mantras and sutras.
Or if you kick the football but you're totally involved
that's a kind of bhakti (devotion).
Those bhakti yogis that you saw - they're just singing and dancing.
They're not practicing meditation, they're not practicing any of these more scientific techniques.
They're approach is very unscientific.
What's scientific about singing, dancing, and rejoicing ? Nothing.
But if you do all that with involvement
it's just another method for the expansion of consciousness.