The Highest Non-Attachment

The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of a brilliant sun.  You lose all interest in them permanently.  This is the highest non-attachment.
-Sri Swami Satchinanda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, page 28

Say what crazy lady?

I love this quote.  It is  probably one of my favorite excerpts from Satchidananda's translation and interpretation of Patanjali's sutras.  I know I have used it here several times before but now I see that the thought behind it  just may be  the basis of Michael Singer's book, the untethered soul. Have I suggested that you read that Yet?   :)

We are talking about Letting Go/

Letting Go of What?

Letting Go of what you so desperately clung to?

So all those shining, dazzling objects that danced around your eye sockets and that may have caught your attention in your unconscious state suddenly  become ordinary specks of light when you wake up.  When you see from clear and conscious vision...you see and experience the sun directly in all its unimagined brilliance.  These thoughts, ideas, impressions you thought were worth reaching up to grab and cling to are suddenly "ordinary" and not worth your time and effort. You lose interest in them permanently. When you let go...when you detach...you fall into the space that is your true Self...and you discover what is important.

Hmmm!  Something to think about.