attachment Vs detachment

attached or detached?

attachment Vs detachment is a powerful game in life. We all keep playing this game, keep switching role here, keep doing trade off between these two.
Maharshi sometimes get totally confused with this game of life.

Maharshi has a dream. The dream about which he was not serious in the begining, but is becoming a strong goal to be achieved in his life. He dreams of building a hospital. He wants to do this in the memory of a dear person in his life. He wants to do something good to the people around. Maharshi keeps thinking about converting this dream to reality. All he is aiming is to earn money as much as possible which is a must to execute his dream. Ofcourse, being in a money rich sector, he is earning good money, but is not enough to purchase land and build the hospital. So he wants to start it with a small investment and then build it further. In the process of achieving his goal, he is not able to spend much time with his family. He works in bengaluru and his parents are in a differnt place. Though he goes to meet them regularly, it is not possible for him to be there all the times and look after his parents.

The day Maharshi left his parents, home and native place to do engineering in a different place, the trade-off between attachement and detachment began. First time in his life, staying away from family made him home-sick. Initially "attachment" was strongly placed in his heart. He use to cry many times, he use to think of running back home. But his goals in life made him to control his feelings. Survival of the fittest is true. This is the time when "detachment" came into picture. At that point, each person in the family had an objective in mind - maharshi trying to build his career, his parents supporting him to succeed in whatever he do in life. Maharshi completed his studies and got a job. His parents became very happy. His parents had done lot of sacrifice in their life for their son to succeed in life. His parents have completed their responsibility of making their son to stand on his own in life. Now it is the time for him to pay back to them.

But what is happening? It is been more than 10 years now, Maharshi is staying away from his parents just because he went to other city for engineering and then to do the job in bengaluru. Apart from this, he travels abroad sometimes on project assignment. He is keep going away from parents as he is chasing his dreams. Maharshi started thinking whether he is doing right or wrong. He is thinking - my parents supported me all my life. they were with me at my good and bad times. They taught me how to lead life. And now when they require my support, my presence with them, i'm not there. When I have to take care of them, i'm not there. All these happening just because, i'm aiming at my dream/goal?

His heart is telling him to give priority for human sentiments and get attached to the family and close people of him. But his mind is telling him to be detached and give priority for his goals. He is totally confused between his sentiments and goals.

Looking at the story of Maharshi, I thought Maharshi is a selfish guy. Because, he is ignoring sentiments and running after his goal since the beginning. I started thinking if there is any solution for his problem. There might be N number of people in bengaluru... chasing after dreams and same time in the confused state just like Maharshi..

Dreamer,
Prasanna