Practicing Detachment in Kali Yuga - 04.29.10

Student Question: The other day you said that detachment was love. When a person achieves that, and is that, every moment of every day, but, still, is out there in the world, how does one deal with the perception of others, and how they may take your detachment?

“We are living in a sea of projections: everyone is projecting on everyone else. And most of those projections today are negative ones,” maintains Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And it’s only if one is in a state of emptiness—one is not an ego form for those projections to stick to—that they will move through you, and you will be able to respond with compassion, and with love, and to be able to teach. Now not everyone will actually want to be taught, and that’s OK too. And as Jesus said, ‘you don’t need to throw your pearls before swine,’ and you don’t need to come out in public as a yogi or as a spiritual being. Those who have eyes to see will see. And so in that state . . . one will gradually attract to oneself those who are truly interested. And one can then help to guide them more toward the light.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 29, 2010.