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or an even disposition in the face of either happiness or sorrow. When someone achieves perfect detachment, no problem or circumstance, including pain, can cause that person to suffer. From the Bhagavad-Gita:
"Contacts with matter make us feel / heat and cold, pleasure and pain.
Arjuna, you must learn to endure / fleeting things- they come and go!
When these cannot torment a man / when suffering and joy are equal
For him and he has courage / he is fit for immortality."
XII.7 How to Achieve Detachment
It can't be simply an intellectual understanding that the Self is part of God. It isn't escapist, pretending that suffering doesn't exist. One part of achieving detachment is to follow dharma (appropriate action), but to be unconcerned with the outcomes of these actions. In the Bhagavad-Gita, a seeker of wisdom Arjuna is told:
"Be intent on action, not on the fruits of action; Avoid attraction to the fruits and attachment to inaction!
Perform actions, firm in discipline, relinquishing attachment;
Be impartial to failure and success - this equanimity is called discipline."
XII.8 Refocus Away from Pain
We who have pain are not to be passive and give up, and can continue to attempt to lessen our 198