How important is it for we ourselves to be detached?

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so for us ourselves how important it is to be detached so generally it is said that you know be strict with yourself and be lenient with others now be strict with yourself means we try to practice the standards as strongly as possible for us now with respect to detachment again usually it is an organic process organic means if you just keep practicing bhakti, detachment naturally emerges and if there are some specific antidemotional tendencies which are particularly dangerous then they have to be addressed but otherwise the renunciation just grows naturally so if somebody has some particular artha which is troubling them a lot then they may have to find out particular ways in which they can minimize the temptation for themselves and that way they can resist that so somebody was alcoholic before and then they have to give up alcohol now sometimes some things they just have to, they have to cut off their friendship with their old friends if their house is close to a bar they may have to relocate the bar so certain if we are ourselves vulnerable to certain things then it is for us to create the safeguards all of us the mind generally chooses the path of least resistance so if satisfying temptation is very easy the mind will satisfy temptation but if satisfying temptation requires a lot of effort generally it is said that if alcoholist want to give up alcohol then first thing is don’t keep alcohol anywhere in your house and you may say no I am keeping it for my guests, no no no you will become the guest so don’t, whatever is the temptation don’t keep it close by so once you do that when things are little difficult then what happens then there is an effort required, again what I said is that the desire surge up and when the desire surge up at that time our intelligence doesn’t work even our conscience doesn’t work and then when the desire has surged up at that time the temptation is also readily available then we fall for it but if somehow that particular temptation is not readily available and there is some effort required to get it then when the desire surge up then at that time during the effort required to get that temptation that surge dies down at least our intelligence comes back, why am I doing this there is no need for me to do this I can avoid this so that way we can create barriers there is like alcoholism, there is another form of addiction called shopaholism people are just compulsive shoppers just go shop, shop, shop till you drop they shop so much so I decided people accumulate a lot of debts because of shopping so then they are told that if you have that kind of tendency then don’t go for shopping with too much money, take only a finite amount if you want to purchase something you have to go again and get the money you have to go home, come back do I really need this so basically whatever is our particular temptation which we are vulnerable to we need to create safeguards by which it is not so easily accessible to us then we can ourselves also become more detached