How can we cultivate detachment by understanding the source of attachment? Bhagawan lovingly articulates for us today with a simple illustration!

A little reflection will give the attitude necessary to develop detachment. You have a house in the city; you lived in it for some years; you call it yours and are proud of it; you protest angrily when a poster is pasted on its walls; you took great care to see that it’s comfortable, charming, and impressive. Then one day you sell it. It’s no longer the object of your attachment! Even when lightning strikes it, you aren’t disturbed. Now, the fields you purchased with the sale proceeds become yours and they attract all your attachments! When flood waters invade those fields, you are very concerned and run everywhere trying to save them from harm! Next, you sell them and call the money yours; put it in a bank and you become attached to it! The money you gave the bank may be loaned by them to someone you don’t like, but you don’t care. Now what exactly is yours? To which were you attached so deeply? The house, fields, money? To none of these things. You were attached to prestige, comfort, show, greed: things that arose in your mind as desire, as urges; to your own ego, basically. That was the thing which induced you to claim these things, one after the other, as yours!