Do not cultivate too much attachment to things of the world, which appeal to carnal desires and sensual thirsts. A moment comes when you have to depart empty handed, leaving all that you have laboriously collected and proudly called your own. (SSS Vol.7, p. 250)

If you have attachment towards wife and children, land and buildings, bank accounts and balances, when these decline, you will come to grief. Develop attachment towards the Universal and you too will grow in love and splendour. (SSS Vol.5, p. 183)

The love expands the self. Attachment contracts it. (MBI, p. 242)

The sense of mine is the bond of deluding attachment. How long can one cling to when he fondles as mind? Some day, he has to give up all he has and leave, alone and empty handed. This is the inescapable destiny. One has to give up such assumed relationships and artificial attachments through rigorous analysis of their nature and give them up as quickly as possible. This is what the world teaches as the lesson of renunciation. Attachment breeds fear and egotism. (Sutra Vahini, p. 18)

Attachment is the root of both joy and grief. Detachment is the saviour. Attachment to the nation, affection to the language, reverence to religion and loyalty to Society are all essential. They are all facets of the overwhelming sense of gratitude one feels, for all that has shaped one. Each such loyalty, instead of running counter to another, must feed and foster all the rest. (SSS Vol.8, p. 151)

I have no special attachment to any one; nor, any special aversion. I am like the electric fan that you see here; switch it on, you get the breeze, switch it off, you get no breeze. The fan has no attachment or aversion. (Uniq, p. 69)

Nowadays, people are not getting rid of attachment and arrogance even in old age. I composed a drama when I was young under the title, ‘Cheppinatlu Chesthaaraa?’ (Do you do as you say?) Now I have to ask: ‘Cheppinatlu Chesinaara?’ (Have you done as I told you?). If you go on concentrating on your family alone till death, what is it you derive finally? None of these people will come with you on your final journey. It is the love of God that will come with you even after death. Develop love and sanctify your life with that Prema principle. Chant the Gayatri morning, noon and evening. You do so many things. Why don’t you chant this Gayatri? I bless all of you that you may sanctify your life in this way, making it useful and meaningful. (SSS Vol.28, p. 127)

The attachments of the world are short-lived. People have been born many times before and have lived out their lives; loving and getting immersed in love, and attaching themselves to others. But does any one have a trace of all that? Does he know where all that has gone? Does he worry about any one of those he loved then? Does he remember them; at least. Now and then? No. The same type of love and attachment were there then also; but with the passage of time, it has been forgotten. So too, when one departs from this world the love one had for others and the joy, pain and happiness one had through that love, will be forgotten. Like the playgrounds of children, the scenes of action of Man will also be changing, from here to there, and from there to somewhere else. Fixing their minds on the insecure, changing love, how tragic it is that people forget the cultivation of the disciplines that will give them the permanent Bliss of the Lord! (DhyV, p. 33)

Attachment Is Disease And Detachment Is Nirvana

After Siddhartha renounced everything and took up the role of a wandering monk, King Suddhodana approached him one day and pleaded, ‘Dear Son! I am an Emperor of a vast Kingdom and you have to take the reins after sometime. How then can you wander like this, seeking alms from all and sundry?’Buddha then replied, ‘Sir! Neither you are my father nor I am your son. All are Embodiments of Brahman. In the worldly sense, you are a King and I am a renunciant. Your is attachment and mine is detachment. In fact, attachment is disease whereas detachment is Nirvana’ (a state of transcendental bliss) (Beacons of Divine Wisdom Part 2, p. 141)