Excerpt from ‘Living in Non-Attachment’

Gururaj: Attachment lies in your craving for the object of attachment. But you can be totally non-attached in admiration of the trees, the leaves, the flowers. To merge yourself into the leaf or the flower petal does not mean attachment, but it means an identification where you have become the flower. You appreciate the beauty of the flower, and not only appreciate the beauty of the flower, but you become One with the flower.
As you proceed further and further, the flower grows vaster and vaster, as vast as the universe. And you become the universe. There becomes no question of attachment. Attachment, to repeat again, is based on the craving after or for the object. But when you become the object, then there is no craving, because you are the object. So, you (also) have detachment – which is escaping. But nonattachment is total identification with the object. “I love my woman” does not mean that I am attached to my woman. In really loving my woman, I become non-attached to the woman, because she has become me. And when she becomes me, the question of non-attachment disappears and the question of attachment also disappears.
You start off by becoming non-attached to the object. But as you proceed along, the object becomes the subject. Then the question of non-attachment disappears. What I am telling you goes far beyond the Vedas and Vedanta and the Bible and Koran. In non-attachment to the object, you make the object into the subject. When you know this, the question of attachment, non-attachment and detachment disappears entirely.
The Gita will tell you to be non-attached. But I tell you that there is no such thing as non-attachment. There is no such thing as non-attachment and also no such thing as attachment or detachment. So, what is the final analysis? It is a total identification, in which all these attachments and non-attachments will just fade away. Let me become the flower. And when I become the flower, then how can I be non-attached or attached to the flower when I’m the flower myself? (cont.)

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