Category:Without Attachment
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category focuses on the practical application of detachment in the execution of one's daily duties. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that true renunciation is not the artificial rejection of the material world, but the process of acting without attachment to the fruitive results. This is known as yukta-vairāgya. Instead of working for personal sense gratification, an intelligent person accepts what is necessary for maintenance and offers the fruits of their labor to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By acting as a matter of duty without attachment, a devotee remains completely untouched by sinful reactions and makes steady progress on the path back to Godhead.
- Performing Prescribed Duties: One must not abandon their responsibilities. The highest perfection is achieved by executing obligatory duties faithfully, but entirely without attachment to success, failure, or fruitive rewards.
- The Principle of Yukta-vairāgya: True detachment means utilizing the objects of the world for the service of the Lord. When everything is accepted in relation to Kṛṣṇa without attachment, it becomes completely spiritualized.
- Family and Social Obligations: A devotee can live in household life, maintain their family, and conduct business, provided they do so without attachment, guiding everyone involved toward spiritual realization.
- Freedom from Karmic Reactions: Just as a lotus leaf rests on the water without becoming wet, a person who surrenders the results of their work to the Lord and acts without attachment is never entangled by the reactions of their work.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Without Attachment - Performing Prescribed Duties in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Without Attachment"
The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
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- A person acting for Krsna, or in Krsna consciousness, under proper guidance and without attachment to the result of the work, is certainly making progress toward the supreme goal of life. BG 1972 purports
- After returning home, Raghunatha dasa gave up all craziness and external pseudo renunciation and engaged in his household duties without attachment
- Arjuna was advised by the Lord (Krsna) to fight as a matter of duty without attachment to the result. His nonparticipation in the battle is another side of attachment. Such attachment never leads one to the path of salvation. BG 1972 purports
- As for actions, that action in accordance with duty, which is performed without attachment, without love or hate, by one who has renounced fruitive results, is called action in the mode of goodness. BG 18.23 - 1972
- As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, similarly the learned may also act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path. BG 3.25 - 1972
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- Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra ca (SB 11.2.42). One who is advanced in devotional service has no attachment for material things for sense enjoyment, but for preaching, to spread the glories of the Lord, he accepts such things without attachment
- By hearing - from master to disciple, and if you follow the religious principles laid down by them, without attachment to ideas manufactured by mental concoction, then every one of your citizens will be happy and will love you
- By knowing this (the position of the Lord and how to approach His dhama) he (Maharaja Pariksit) could leave aside everything material, even his own body, without any difficulty of attachment
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- Equanimity, refers to freedom from attachment and aversion. To be very much attached or to be very much detached is not the best. This material world should be accepted without attachment or aversion. BG 1972 purports
- Everyone has his proprietory right in regard to prescribed duties, but should act without attachment to the result; such disinterested obligatory duties doubtlessly lead one to the path of liberation. BG 1972 purports
- Everything can be turned. Hari-sambandhi-vastunah: without any attachment. Just like these boys, they are collecting money, but not a single farthing they are spending for themselves. Not a single farthing
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- For a long time I have not bestowed unalloyed loving service to Me upon the inhabitants of the world. Without such loving attachment, the existence of the material world is useless
- For self-realization, one can live a controlled life, as prescribed in the sastras, and continue carrying out his business without attachment, and in that way make progress. BG 1972 purports
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- If it is possible for a devotee to remain transcendental, it is certainly possible for the SP of Godhead to remain in His internal potency without being attached to the external potency. There should be no difficulty in understanding this situation
- If one accepts something without attachment and accepts it because it is related to Krsna, one's renunciation is called yukta-vairagya. Since Krsna is the Absolute Truth, whatever is accepted for His service is also the Absolute Truth
- If one accepts something without attachment and accepts it because it is related to Krsna, one’s renunciation is called yukta-vairagya
- If there is any obstruction to this surrendering process, one should immediately give it up without attachment
- In material existence we have so many objects of sense gratification, which we need for the maintenance of the body, we should use all of them without attachment, for the purpose of satisfying the senses of Krsna; that is actual renunciation
- In the previous verse (SB 4.20.7) two significant words are used: asamsaktah, meaning "without attachment," and budhah, meaning "fully cognizant of everything."
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- On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his active organs in works of devotion, without attachment, is by far superior. BG 3.7 - 1972
- One must be intelligent enough to understand the purpose of the Vedas, without being attached to the rituals only, and must not desire to be elevated to the heavenly kingdoms for a better quality of sense gratification. BG 1972 purports
- One should act without attachment for the result; he should be disassociated from the modes of work
- One should attempt to know the distinction between body and soul without any attachment for male and female. As long as such distinction is there, one should not try to become a sannyasi like Sukadeva Gosvami
- One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme God, is not affected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by water. BG 5.10 - 1972
- Ordinary household affairs become miserable for him (anyone who drinks a small drop of krsna-katha), and without attachment he suddenly gives up everything. Although such renunciation is quite suitable, because I am a woman I am unable to adopt it
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- Realization is possible when one works without attachment to fruitive results and is situated in the fixed conception of the real self
- Regulated occupational duties performed without attachment or proprietary rights and therefore without any love or hatred and performed in Krsna consciousness for the satisfaction of the Supreme are called actions in the mode of goodness. BG 1972 pur
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- Srila Rupa Gosvami has recommended, anasaktasya visayan (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.255). Without being attached by sex, the husband and wife may live together for the advancement of spiritual life
- Such a sincere person who follows this method (by carrying out his business without attachment) is far better situated than the false pretender who adopts show-bottle spiritualism to cheat the innocent public. BG 1972 purports
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- The devotee is advised to accept the necessities of life without attachment. He'll take boiled water, but if boiled water is not available, does it mean he will not drink water? If it is not available, he will drink ordinary water
- The individual soul eats the fruit of the tree, while the other bird does not eat the fruit but only observes the activities of the eating bird. Without attachment, the witnessing bird helps the fruit-eating bird perform fruitful activities
- The Lord advised that Arjuna not be inactive, but that he perform his prescribed duty without being attached to the result. BG 1972 purports
- The Vaisnava accepts this material world according to the regulative principles of the Vedic injunctions and works without attachment
- Things should be accepted for the Lord's service and not for one's personal sense gratification. If one accepts something without attachment and accepts it because it is related to Krsna, one's renunciation is called yuktam vairagyam - BRS 1.2.255-256
- To be a good man or a nonviolent man is a personal attachment, but to act on behalf of the Supreme is to act without attachment for the result. That is perfect action of the highest degree, recommended by the SP of Godhead, Sri Krsna . BG 1972 purports
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- While a devotee must know this (no one is a wife, child, husband, or father of anyone else), that does not mean he should neglect his family. As a matter of duty he should maintain his family members without attachment and instruct them in KC
- Without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme
- Without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme
- Without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme. BG 3.19 - 1972