How is the Gita’s detachment different from Mayavadi detachment?

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so when Vishnu talks about Sarvaka Vyaga, detachment is it different from Mayavadi detachment well detachment is not the monopoly of the Mayavadis detachment is something which is important in Bhakti also in Mayavadi detachment is the central aspect of their sadhana whereas in Bhakti it is an important but subordinate aspect it is subordinate to Bhakti Bhakti is in the heart of the people who are in distress Bhakti is in their heart and Gyan is in their heart so when Sarvaka Vyaga is talked about that is more in terms of detachment from the fruits of actions whereas the personalists, Mayavadis they usually talk about renouncing work itself they say all work is entanglement and you don’t have to renounce just the fruits of work, you have to renounce work itself but that is impractical for most people and from the Bhagavad Gita’s perspective it is not essential also in fact for many people it is undesirable to renounce work so for renouncing detachment essentially means firstly rejecting that which is unfavourable to Krishna directly in terms of violation of the Hindu principles and secondly detachment means not letting our consciousness be consumed by religions.
Krishna in Sarvaka 18th chapter differentiates between Tyaga and Vairagya that is a question Arjun asked that so what is the difference between Sanyas and Tyaga so Arjun knows Krishna described that there are various levels of answers to this question but what Krishna essentially says is that Tyaga Sanyas is an ashram whereas Tyaga renunciation is a disposition so one can actually renounce without necessarily being renounced so that is lack of emotional entanglement in the sense objects when we are interacting with sense objects but if one is not emotionally entangled in the sense objects then one is considered to be renounced so devotees don’t focus on getting disentangled from the sense objects devotees focus on being engaged in Krishna if our emotions are engaged in Krishna then automatically they become disentangled from the sense objects when the prostitute came to allure Haridas Thakur he did not have the things this is a prostitute I should not get entangled with her his focus was on absorbing her in her image and because he is engaged he is automatically protected from the prostitute at the same time Haridas Thakur did not go to the prostitute it’s not that a devotee challenges putting oneself in dangerous situations but in this world dangerous situations may come anyway the devotee focuses not just on avoiding danger but on connecting with Krishna so these devotees focus not on detachment in terms of running away from the world or avoiding world duties entirely they focus on connecting with Krishna and all of us may have certain specific weaknesses which we have to get just like a recovering alcoholic he is told to avoid bars he is told to avoid alcoholics similarly all of us may have certain specific weaknesses which we will need to avoid so in that sense detachment specifically means distancing ourselves from our specific weaknesses but overall it means engaging our emotions with Krishna and thus automatically protecting our emotions from getting entangled