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Affection and attachments are intense emotional feeling immensely influencing our thought and behavior. Attachment is a step ahead of that affection. Your eyes get stuck over a thing that instantly attracts you and slowly- slowly affection comes to your heart that finally results into attachment. This you can develop with any living or non-living thing. Every emotion and feeling we need for smooth function of this existence otherwise nature might have not created that. Everything this existence constitutes, have some significance, nothing you can see useless. However, this nature has put one condition with everything that ‘excess has to be avoided’. It has given a mark of control and who dared to cross that mark suffered severe consequences.
Affection and attachment also have this mark, a very fine line of threshold. Who do not understand this and cross this mark suffers in rest of life. It is not at all bad to fall in affection but it becomes bad when boundary is crossed. We all wish happiness and pleasure in life but our careless attitude towards these thresholds; bring unhappiness and ocean of sorrow. Spirituality gives us guidance to avoid 'invitation to these sorrows.'
Spirituality is path of loving this nature and existence. It guides us to accept this existence as whole and to live in totality without crossing the threshold. Spirituality is to stop crossing threshold of the two extremes. In regard of attachment, spirituality does not preach about 'detachment' rather it asks 'not to attach.' Spirituality talks about a destination with ultimate enjoyment and it says that attachment is resistive element on this path.
'Chanakya' one of the greatest thinkers said that, "He who is overly attached to his family members’ experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."
However, it is a fact that discarding attachment is not as easy as it can be uttered and write. But if will is strong and one has take resolution with dedication to discard attachment, he will definitely succeed. Though it seems to be tough but is not impossible.
A story depicts the same problem of attachment and also the solution.
"There was a man who had a pet dog. He used to caress it, carry it about in his arms, play with it and kiss it. A wise man, seeing this foolish behavior of his, warned him not to lavish such affection on a dog. For it was, after all, an irrational brute, and might bite him one day. The owner took the warning to heart and put the dog away from his arms, resolved never again to fondle it or to caress it.
But the animal could not first understand the change in his master, and would run to him frequently to be taken up and caressed. Beaten several times, the dog at last ceased to trouble his master anymore."
Such indeed is everybody's condition. The dog you have been cherishing (a form of attachment) so long in your bosom will not easily leave you, though you may wish to be rid of it. However, there is no harm in it. Do not caress the dog any more, but give it a good beating whenever it approaches you to be fondled, and in course of time, you will be altogether free from its importunities. If you want not to be attached from any lust, it will haunt you and try to break you. This is the thing we need to monitor continuously.
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