Detachment means mind should be free from attachments to any worldly object or to worldly person.

Krishn tells in Gita,‘Mind cannot stop working even for a fraction of a second.’ Mind’s job is non-stop thinking. It will think. Whatever you do, it will not stop thinking.

There was a man. He worshiped a ghost. The ghost was pleased and appeared before him and said,’You are my boss now. I will do whatever you ask me to do. But remember, I must have work. I will not remain idle.’ The man agreed thinking that he had a plenty of work for the ghost. The man ordered him to bring food, to plough the field, to build house and so on. Ghost completed each work quite fast and came back to his boss asking for more work. Boss was a worried man. He went to a pandit (a wise person) and asked his advice. Pandit advised, ‘You put a pole of around 10-20 feet; hammer it in the ground. Then ask that ghost to climb up and down till next job is assigned to him.’

Same is mind. It works continuously, non-stop like a ghost. Its job is thinking. Some stupid people try to stop thinking of mind through meditation, not knowing what Gita says about the mind. It is futile attempt. The machine is so designed that it is always on.

A two wheeler, bicycle or bike, is balanced as long as it is moving. It can be moved in any direction but the motion cannot be stopped else balance is gone. In the similar way, mind keeps on moving. Its thinking can only be diverted to wherever desired but thinking in unstoppable. Thinking can be done in two areas – material or divine. Material area about sensual indulgence and about worldly relations. Divine area is about soul and its relationship with God. Any kind of relation can be established with God, the best being romantic relationship.

Better to drive the mind to the land of happiness(divine world) than to the land of miseries(material world). Choice is yours. It is a tragedy of human life that the first choice is not selected.