What is emotional attachment? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)

Questioner (Q): Is emotional attachment so powerful? Why does it have such deep effect?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Do you know what is attachment? Attachment is—when your unconscious nature prevails, without you knowing anything of it. Attachment is nothing but the movement of our material nature. Yes, we are talking about emotional attachment.

So, look at an iron piece and a magnet. The iron piece attracts the magnet. The magnet attracts the iron piece. Both move towards each other. Does any of them have any idea of what is happening? Does any of them have any idea what is happening?

And if you leave an iron piece and a magnet together for a long time, do you know what will happen? Do you know what will happen? They will get actually attached to each other. Diffusion of molecules from one solid surface to the other will take place.

You all know of gaseous diffusion, right? You leave oxygen and nitrogen together. What happens to them? They mix. You also know of liquid diffusion. But are you aware that solids also diffuse into each other?

Have you seen very old cars or bikes. There, do we have a mechanical batch here? No. If you want to operate upon an old nut bolt, you can't open it. If you have a vehicle, let's say a bike that is now 20 years old or let's say 12 years old.