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Loneliness vs. Solitude

Dhananjay • 3/6/2017
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QUESTION: Dear Dhananjay,

I've been following this query for a very long time,almost since the beginning and I should thank you for the light and confidence you have brought to my path and definitely many others.
My question regards to loneliness as a somewhat natural consequence of brahmacharya,as celibacy and attention to the self and its states rather than empty daily interactions(considered as a norm of a non-brahmacharya path) could very easily lead to loneliness.I know I have to embrace this loneliness and convert it to solitude but this couldn't happen at every moment of your life,sometimes you feel the need of "sharing". what should be done?
Also what happens to the so-called "social skills",by which partly we refer to the same empty interactions but to some gain,and if you don`t intent to or even after a while of celibacy "forget to" perform these expected rituals of social life,you're condemned to: 1) even more loneliness,in part involuntarily, and 2) you may lack behind your job or routine affairs since when people don't get the expected social feedback from you,they don't support you, and the loneliness extends beyond ,I guess its supposed limit.
Am right about all this?
how embrace it or combat it?
May I appeal to you about one matter in response? I know given the time always something happens and even if something doesn't happen,again something has happened,so please rather than asking me to give time to it,dissect the whole mental process and untwine each tiny intricacy of this process.
I know I'm just asking too much.please Forgive my ignorance.
Thank you very much
John

ANSWER: 1. When one learns to merge into the Atman (self) via meditation, solitude dawns.

2. Internally detached but externally involved is the method for social interactions.

Do this much for a decade. That which is to be known will be known.

ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)

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QUESTION: Dear Sir,

what does "Internally detached but externally involved" exactly mean? doesn't it seem a bit hypocritical? how is it implemented? please provide an example.

Thanks a lot

Answer

What does an actor on stage do? Does he really suffer the pain of the character while enacting or after? The character being played experiences the pain and not the actor. He is internally detached, yet externally involved, for the time being.

ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)  

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