Attachment is a state when we create boundaries around all the love we are. It gives shape and form to our love.
As we flow in the stream of attachment, we lose our identity and merge with the physical form of the beings we love. In this moment, we create time and space and feel that love is external in some form. We have this urge to hold on to and control things. Each one of us is naturally evolving, but attachment blocks this evolution by possessing. It tries to create limits to the infinite and eternal love that already exists within us. The result is that we begin to experience pain because we forget to let go and detach from the form and just be love…
In physical life, when we as women give birth to a child, we experience unconditional love as soon as we hold the child in our arms. We are overwhelmed with this motherly love, and it makes us feel so full and complete. All we experience is the feeling of immense love that constantly surrounds us.
When we look into the eyes of the child, we can feel the twinkling of the stars. When we see the smile on his face, we feel the sparkling of the sun. We are like a ‘drop’ of unconditional love for this child, as God is an ‘ocean’ of eternal love for us. We are so full of gratitude to God for letting us experience this love in the form of adoring our child, playing with our child, feeding our child, putting our child to sleep, caressing our child, and hugging our child. The ways in which we get to experience this eternal love are infinite.
We are so surrounded by love that even with the complete knowledge of the fact that we are just the guardians of this child of God, we instantly get attached to this beautiful gift. The moment we do that, we start to feel this is our creation, this is our child, this is the most precious thing on the whole entire planet. The moment we attach ourselves to this gift, we create a dust of fear that begins to layer our identity as a love being. This layer of fear is the veil that needs to be lifted to remind us of all the love that already exists beneath it.
The irony of attachment is that we start to limit our beings. We feel that love is external in the physical form of the child.
When we find love in our child, we don’t realize that God has given us a mirror in the form of this child to remind us of the love that already exists within us. He is a mirror to our inner child, to our pure selves, to our true selves, to our innocent selves, to our love selves in the form of his being. We are all children of God. But the attachment gets in the way of this limitless experience. It gives birth to fear—the fear of loss of love, the fear of pain, the fear of hurt—and we keep encircling ourselves with the dust of fear. We get so caught in fear that we don’t see the light of love…
The more we get attached to the gifts God bestows upon us, the more we get caught in the web of illusion. The more we get caught in this web of illusion, the harder it is to let go of the fears.
The more we see our true detached selves in the mirrors that God sends us, the closer we get to our reality. Every individual we encounter is an opportunity to look in the mirror of our souls. Whether we want to see the love or fear in the mirror is a choice we make every moment. We attract and grow more and more of what we see…
“Let thy not attach to that which is not, but be what is. Let thy not live in the illusion of form, but let the spirit be the form. Let thy not attach to the boundaries of space and time, but be the unconditional love that has no boundaries…”
With Love,
Vandana
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