SOMETHING BETTER

Dispassion, or nonattachment, is possible when we get hold of something better, the saying goes. 

Termed vairagya in Yoga philosophy, dispassion comes of discrimination, as in Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination.  It is when we differentiate between that which is non-eternal and that which is eternal. 

When we see this manifested world for what it truly is, a phantasm, a mirage, a dream, hence undependable, illusive, unreliable, we see that it is not worth attaching ourselves to.  It is not worth our clinging to, even though clinging to it is what we have been conditioned to do, and have done, our entire lives. 

When we see the futility of such grasping, it leads us to that which is unchanging, dependable, reliable.  It leads us to the eternal.  God is eternal.  God is something better.