What is the difference between attachment and obsession?

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thank you what is the difference between attachment and obsession and is it okay to have obsession when it comes to spirituality basically attachment and obsession are just uh progressions on the same continuum Krishna says in the bhagavad-gita in 2.62 and 63 so there is describing when we contemplate or something at that time attachment comes when we are passing along a road and we see something hey that’s a nice food item i want to go and eat it you may have no plan to eat it but we just go i want to eat it the desire comes and that desire becomes very strong so that’s attachment attachment develops first when we contemplate on things but over a period of time as that contemplation continues then what happens kama means it becomes an overpowering desire it becomes an obsession then somebody says don’t do it who are you to stop me you become furious at whoever become angry with whoever wants to whoever or whatever comes as an obstacle between that krodhad bhavati sammoha means at that time there’s delusion so delusion means we just forget what is right what is wrong you just get completely caught in that one activity then our intelligence our memory it all gets forgotten and like that we go down and our memory is lost our intelligence is lost after that we fall so basically obsession is like is an advanced stage of attachment when there is attachment also there is some danger if you consider snowball the snowball is formed at the top of a hill it is it is just like a pebble at the top when it is rolling down somebody can just kick it it’ll crack into pieces but as the snowball starts coming down down down down the hill it gathers more and more snow and by the time it has come down at the bottom of the hill it may be so big it may just knock over a whole human being so what has happened the snowball at the top is a pebble but at the bottom it can be like a huge boulder similarly when the thought is at the top when at the initial stage it’s just a thought maybe maybe i can do this but as we keep contemplating it keeps coming down and down and down it becomes become bigger and bigger stronger and stronger so attachment is like a snowball which is just being formed it is also it is also dangerous but it is at a controllable level obsession means it’s just not controllable it has become a very uh it’s already become a