To What Can I be Justificably Attached?

 

Everything changes with time, what then in this life can I be attached to without consequence? From a yogic understanding the only thing I believe a yogi would allow someone to be attached to is the prospect and understanding of the true self. Not the self as one would normally classify it; since we age and our body and personality will change with the more we experience.

But this notion of being attached only to the true self can only be grasped by following the 7 Stages of Yogic Understanding. Therefore we must first come to realize that what we seek is within ourselves and that mind is what causes our pain. Those first two steps will help us discern what we can and should not be attached to; what is frivolous and what is necessary. The mind then becomes fully introspective, but not through learning, through awareness and experience. Then the mind is dissolved and our impressions remain but do not disturb our true mind until we reach the Highest Samadhi when only reality remains and no longer lends itself to impressions or inference.

So, the only thing one person can be attached to is the true self once one discovers the Highest Samadhi. That is when all else dissolves and all other notions of the self dissipate. I would venture to guess that a yogi would say since Samadhi is the final goal of yoga it makes a certain sense to bear some level of attachment to it, but if all one’s focus is entirely on Samadhi without first learning to dissolves one’s own mind then they will never reach it.