How can we be both detached and compassionate?
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How can we be both detached and compassionate? See, there are Different focuses In both of these When you talk about detachment It is primarily from Krishna It is primarily from Conceptions of Our own gratification You know, I don’t want this Particular thing for my gratification I’ll give you a simple example Say, if there is a sweet Being served I am detached from the sweet That means that I am not concerned Whether I get a sweet or not But if I see somebody else They are very eager for that sweet Then I can become judgmental So attached Or others can be sensitive I may not feel the craving for the sweet But if they are feeling Then I can give them that sweet and I can please them So Basically, detachment Means That our emotions Are not locked in certain things When we are attached, our emotions Get locked in certain things And we express a lot of emotions in relationship with that thing And often we become desensitized to other things Like if there is a cricket match going on I may want to have the full volume I want to watch and enjoy the cricket match But others are getting disturbed by that I don’t care about that So attachment means our emotions get locked in a particular thing And we become desensitized To other things But that’s attachment Detachment means our emotions Are not locked in anything So our emotions are not invested In anything, that is detachment Compassion means We are Sensitized To other’s emotions We may not get emotionally overwhelmed by them But when others are suffering We feel their suffering And then we want to help them Deal with the suffering So In 6.32 Krishna says that By By Those who by comparison with their own self See the true equality of all beings In good and bad They are Truly spiritually advanced souls That means What we can see is that Without the practice of bhakti We are anxious, we are agitated By the practice of bhakti we have become peaceful We have become joyful So what holds true for me also holds true for others And therefore although I am not Attached to my own gratification But as far as helping others is concerned I am concerned and therefore I will try to help So that way by not letting our emotions Be locked in anything at the same time We sensitize to others emotions We can be compassionate So it’s more of in both cases The center is not the self Actually there is only Very like a gyani kind of detachment Ok Ok Oh wonderful Thank you Hare Krishna Thank you So in both cases there is selflessness I am not concerned with my own emotions But if there is too much detachment Then that selflessness leads to No sorry That detachment changes into Heartlessness So detachment Detachment is not the same as hard heartedness Hard heartedness is I don’t feel anything at all Whereas detachment Means that we are not invested Selfishly With selfish emotions and things So The difference is that in detachment It’s all If it’s only detachment like the gyani marg detachment Then ok there is no enjoyment So I don’t care for it But in bhakti We go beyond detachment to compassion Because we see ok I don’t want anything for this person But this person’s soul is also connected with Krishna And therefore If I can help this person in some way Then Krishna will be pleased So I can serve Krishna to this person So Attachment is self centered in terms of What I can get Detachment can also be self centered in terms of I can’t get anything therefore I don’t care for it But compassion means Ok There is an opportunity to serve Krishna Krishna is concerned over here Therefore I will invest myself emotionally I will try to feel what this person is saying And try to help that person So the more we become Krishna centered The more we will become compassionate And that will also Foster detachment which will not be hard hearted Because we are still sensitized In our emotions with Krishna