# Transfer Attachment *On the need to transfer, not eliminate, attachment* --- ### Cannot Give Up Attachment > So this *mayy āsakta,* Kṛṣṇa is summarily. But the *ācāryas,* they have defined how we can. We have got attachment. Every one of us got this propensity or the quality of attachment to others. The wife is attached to husband; husband is attached to wife. The son is attached to the father; father is attached to the son. Everyone. That attachment you increase, then to your family, to your community, to your society, to your country, to your nation. The attachment is there. You cannot say that "I have no attachment for anything." That is not possible. When. *Sannyāsī. Sannyāsī* mean *sat nyāsī,* one who has given up attachment for this false material world. That is the philosophy of Śaṅkarācārya. He says, *brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā.* Therefore he is advising that "You have got attachment for this material world. This is false." *Brahma satyam. Jagan mithyā:* he simply explains the negative side. But *brahma satyam:* "Brahman, the Supreme Absolute Truth, is truth." So attachment for that. You cannot give up the attachment spirit, but you have to change the attachment. That is freedom. We have got so many attachments for this material world. You have to transfer that attachment for Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha.* He doesn't say that "You give up your attachment." How you can give up your attachment? That is not possible. He says, "Just transfer the attachment to Me." — [[spoken/1975/750309bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1, London, March 9, 1975]] --- ### Individual Souls Remain Individual > Kṛṣṇa, or God, He's also *nitya,* eternal. We are also *nitya,* eternal. *Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre.*. We do not die. That is the preliminary knowledge of spiritual understanding, that "I am not this body; I am spirit soul, *ahaṁ brahmāsmi,* but I am individual." *Nityo nityānām.* Kṛṣṇa is individual person; I am also individual person. When Kṛṣṇa says that *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja.*, it does not mean that I become one with Kṛṣṇa or merge into the existence of Kṛṣṇa. I keep my individuality, Kṛṣṇa keeps His individuality, but I agree to abide by His order. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā* to Arjuna that "I have spoken to you everything. Now what is your decision?" Individual. It is not that Kṛṣṇa is forcing Arjuna. *Yathecchasi tathā kuru.*: "Now whatever you like, can do." That is individuality. — [[spoken/1974/740309cc.may|Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.7, Māyāpur, March 9, 1974]] --- ### Surrender Mind to Kṛṣṇa > This is surrender. *Mānasa deha geha.* We have got our this mind. Mind is the center of creative force. Therefore we have to surrender, first of all, our mind to Kṛṣṇa, just like Ambarīṣa Mahārāja did. *Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-pādāravindayor vacāṁsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane.*. He set example that he, first of all, he surrendered his mind unto the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, *sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor.* And *vacāṁsi vaikuṇṭha-guṇānuvarṇane,* and he engaged his talkings simply on the matter of describing Vaikuṇṭha. Kṛṣṇa's another name is Vaikuṇṭha. *Vaikuṇṭha* means *vigata-kuṇṭha. Kuṇṭha* means anxiety. If you surrender to Kṛṣṇa, from that moment you become free from all anxieties. Therefore Kṛṣṇa's name is Vaikuṇṭha. — [[spoken/1972/720307bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 9.2, Calcutta, March 7, 1972]] --- ### Free From All Anxieties > *Kuṇṭha* means anxiety. If you surrender to Kṛṣṇa, from that moment you become free from all anxieties. Therefore Kṛṣṇa's name is Vaikuṇṭha. — [[spoken/1972/720307bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 9.2, Calcutta, March 7, 1972]] --- ### The Whole World Working Like Hogs and Dogs > So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is teaching people that "You have no other business than to work for Kṛṣṇa. That's all." This is Kṛṣṇa business. This is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness business. That is called the highest perfection. *Saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gataḥ. Siddhi.* Here it is, *siddhi. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye*. *Siddhaye* means to understand, "What is my position? Why I am working so hard day and night for simply for sense gratification, for satisfying the tongue, to fulfill the belly and satisfy the genital? This is my business. That is being done by the dogs and hog." When one comes to this sense, that "Shall I work like the cats, dogs and hogs, or I have got any other business?" that is human life. — [[spoken/1975/750311bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3, London, March 11, 1975]] --- ### Attachment Must Be There > This is a verse in Sanskrit spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Fourth Chapter, verse number ten. *Vīta-rāga* means "freed from attachment." *Bhaya* means fearfulness, and *krodha* means anger. So being freed from these material qualities. In the material existence, at the present moment, we are very much attached to the material enjoyment. That is called *rāga.* And if we cannot fulfill our desires, then there is *krodha,* anger. And accompanied by *krodha* and attachment, there is always a tendency of fearfulness. So Kṛṣṇa says... "Kṛṣṇa" means... When I speak Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa means the all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead. So *man-mayā,* when one becomes attached to God, giving up the attachment of this material sense pleasure, when one becomes... Attachment must be there, either this way or that way. If we do not become attached to the Supreme Being, then we must be attached to this material enjoyment. Therefore it is said *vīta-rāga,* "Giving up the attachment of this material world, when you transfer your attachment to Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Being," *man-mayā mām upāśritāḥ... Upāśrita* means "taking shelter of Me." Unless you take shelter of Kṛṣṇa or His representative, there is no possibility of being detached from this material enjoyment. — [[spoken/1974/740531bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 4.10, Festival at Maison de Faubourg, Geneva, May 31, 1974]] --- ### Help the Disciple Transfer the Attachment > So our business is, spiritual master's business is, how to help the disciple to transfer the attachment... The attachment quality is there. But it is being mixed up with material things. — [[spoken/1975/750705r1.chi|Room Conversation, Chicago, July 5, 1975]] --- ### Paraṁ Dṛṣṭvā Nivartate > *Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate.* If you get better engagement, to try to engage yourself always in the better engagement, then these material activities will be zero. Automatically. — [[spoken/1973/730805bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.4–5, London, August 5, 1973]] --- *8 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on transferring attachment*