Non-Attachment in Spirituality - Spiritual Depression Causes and Cures
Attachement is the root cause of all suffering, anxiety, worry and spiritual depresison
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), depression and worry normally means you are attached to what you do NOT want, or what you DO want- but not what God wants - thinking that you do not already have what you need to be happy. Maybe you have a selfish attachment to achieve a certain goal, to possess a certain person, to achieve wealth, or maybe you are attached to protecting yourself from lack of wealth, success or happiness? Maybe you are attached to time, lack of time, deadlines... or sex, alcohol or food? Maybe you are heartbroken and attached to what you have lost in life, such as your beautiful girlfriend, health, money or freedom. Or maybe you are attached to the idea of freeing your self from health problems, relationship problems, unhappiness or other imaginary illusions?
Whenever there is burden in your life... whenever you do not have peace of mind... whenever you have depression in your life... you need to check to see what type of attachments you have. Some big attachment needs to be dissolved, and then divine peace and love will be realized in its place. Attachment (even that which may seem spiritual, good or healthy) is the root of all burden, hurt, worry and heartbreak. Attachment is spiritual ignorance. In a way it is a betrayal of God. Because you are identifying with the attachments and forgetting God. It means you are identifying with those attachments instead of God.
Karma is created by attachment to the fruit of action, inspired by the intention to avoid or protect yourself from what you do not want - such as what you fear. This includes action to get yourself out of trouble in life. Karma is also caused by desires of the senses, such as selfish desires of uncontrolled greed, lust and wealth. These type of desires may seem good or appealing. But the problem is, there can never be any true satisfaction. With attachment, the suffering always outweights the actual prospect of pleasure. A person attached to the result of action to obtain pleasure only suffers and is left in pain, such as that of wanting what you feel you do not have, with emptiness and feelings of loss. This is all born of attachment. You only experience misery as a result. If you are led by basic desires of the senses, selfish or greedy desires that never end and are never satisfied, how can you find the true happiness? You are always at loss. This is spiritual depression. If you are hurt then it means you may have the ability to hurt others as well. Your are living in a world of karma and suffering.
To some degree you have to control your senses and start cutting off your attachments. If you follow your sensory desires only you become like an animal and cause a lot of damage to yourself, others and the whole of mankind on earth. But you might be thinking... if I give up all my crazy desires and attachments, is it still possible to live in this world? Is not all worldly action based on desires? Will it lead to inactivity? Will I be deprived of happiness and be worse off if I did not have desires? No! Attachments are just things we identify with. They are fake because they do not bring us happiness like we imagine. They are illusions. They cover our true nature, our souls true desire to know and exprience God.
There is only action born of ONE type of desire that does not result in Karma and suffering,.. and that is everything you do, should be for His pleasure, to satisfy God's desire. What type of action does God desire? Action out of duty, Love and virtue. Action created free from the desire of the fruit of that action.
If you are really suffering in life with burdens and depressions and you want to be free... identify those attachments and say..."so what, I do not care about that any more. I will do my best to achieve that goal, IF that is the most virtuous thing to do... but if I do not achieve it, so what, no big deal. I am not attached" Then you will stop worrying about that, because it does not matter. You let it go. Once that aspect of your consciousness is dissolved, you can experience great peace in the present moment and be truly happy.
The spiritual cure for depression and anxiety, is to never be attached to the fruit of any action- even if that action may seem necessary or important, such as the goal or action to make you life more secure or happy. If it is your duty then do it, but do not be attached to the fruit of your action. Non-attachment to the fruit of any action is one of the secrets to enlightenment. Do your action for God's pleasure only. You can thus never be at loss, but you gain the highest peace, love and happiness. Align yourself with divinity.
Supreme Love, Peace and the experience of God is achieved through non-attachment. Without any distractions you can just BE, FEEL, LOVE, and DO in a way that is free from karma and suffering
The funny illusion, is that by doing this you even gain and enjoy more of what you desired in the first place, but it is consecrated in God with divine Love for HIS pleasure. It is a method of only gaining happiness, and never being at loss.
When non-attachment takes place, no matter what is going on around you, you can just Love for no reason at all, you can just Be in the highest peace and serenity, you can just smile for no reason. You are free from spiritual depression and anxiety. You will be surrounded always by continuous waves and shivery feelings of Love (angels). The highest happiness will manifest in your life and spread to everyone. The only thing you will radiate from your aura is divine Love. You will become the embodiment of divine love, peace and truth. Instead of feeling great burden, you will feel great peace in its place. Such lightness! Such relief! Such a happiness! ALL action should be dedicated to God. You will then only do what you do out of duty, out of right action, out of love.
If you continuously seek the objects of attachment you may never be satisfied. But if you desire only God's desire then you can enjoy whatever He decides to put in front of you. Maybe wealth, a beautiful girlfriend, it does not matter. You can enjoy it by all means, if it is dedicated to God, if it makes God happy or if God puts it in front of you, but you should never be attached to the crazy objects of desires. Action is performed out of love and virtue, without being attached to the fruit of that action. Your identification should be with God only,
But if God gives you what you want, and you still do not want Him- why should he give you anything? That is His point. Why be attached to anything other than God, acting to fulfil his desire? God's nature is Love. Love is the nature of our true self. You find God through non-attachment. Identify what those attachments are that are causing you burden and spiritual depression, and just remove them. Say goodbye to them, say you do not care about them. You only are interested in finding what pleases God. You are happy to remove all selfishness and dedicate every action to God. It takes a lot of practice.
Due to the nature of illusions, the normal way people realise this truth of non-attachment is through great suffering. Sometimes to dissolve a layer of aura and attachment you tend to suffer first. That attachment may even manifest as physical illness, pain or disease. The alternative is to just DECIDE to end your attachments NOW and make it easy for yourself. Everything you do should be dedicated to God, everything. It is like a form of sacrifice. An enlightened person simply means they have learned to become selfless.
Is it really possible to feel peace, even while here on earth? Yes! After you have removed some big attachments, do what you need to do out of duty and Love, not by being attached to any fruit of your action- compelled by Love only to please God and fulfil His pleasure- thinking of God constantly. Then God's pleasure will also be your pleasure and you will be flooded with peace, love and bliss. This is the spiritual cure for anxiety and depression. With this type of non-attachment, everywhere you go there will be smiles, fun, laughter, abundance, true love and happiness.
This also means that whatever is happening around you, good or bad, you are not affected, your inner peace is not disturbed, and your inner peace grows and grows. If something unfavourable happens you do not care, you can just bear it- it does not hurt you or affect your peace. You are non-attached and free from karma, there is only transcendence of divine love until your life becomes more happy and blissful, until you return home to God.
