Attachment is just a promise. A lack of fulfilment. It is a substitute for love because the real thing is not available. If you find yourself attached, it means there is a desire for love; it means there is a call for love. Know that a fake is presenting itself as a substitute for the real thing.
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Questioner: What is the difference between Attachment and Love?
Acharya Prashant: There is a story about a woman, a rural woman, an illiterate woman, who did not know how to read. So, she was in her village and her lover was a soldier, serving in some far off land. He would write her letters and the woman had no way of reading those letters, she was illiterate. The only way she could have read them was by using somebody else’s services. But because the letters were from her lover, intimate letters, she didn’t want somebody else to read them. So, when the letters would arrive, she would not even open the envelope.
She would kiss the letters, keep the letters close to her heart, and carry them everywhere she would go. If she is travelling, there would be a small case containing those letters. While eating, the letters are next to her. While sleeping, the letters are by her side. Then, one day, one of her close friends visited her, she knew how to read, and because she was her close friend, this woman could trust her to read those letters. One by one she read out those letters, this woman heard those letters. She cried in joy, tears were rolling down her cheeks and having heard the contents of the letters, she came to a point where she didn’t feel the need to carry them all the time with her.
