Detachment from relationships isn’t always felt due to karmic connections. Sometimes our higher purpose is to focus on the self, to nurture the self, to go deeper and work on the self and so here, relationships will tend to disillusion us or to push us away or there may be separation and we may feel isolated. Though such disillusionment or isolation is for our own good. It is for self-work.

We are standing at a point in the time cycle, where self-work has become the most important. Where humans need to step up the process of consciousness shift and evolve to a state of greater maturity and sense. And so, some of us may already be on this journey out of our own choice, while some may be pushed into it through disenchantment with relationships. This is not to say that any such disenchantment arises only due to our need to grow. It can happen as a result of major karmic debts. But even then, when one is pushed towards a solitary path or one feels disconnected even while being in active relationships, close family ties and friendships, the bigger reason is one’s higher mandate. It is one’s own need to grow and evolve as the being. Something that cannot be fulfilled unless one shifts major focus on the self and starts living and operating through a bigger and better relationship with the self.

Also, for as much as we may think that we need relationships to grow and feel complete, for successful and karma free relationships, what we need to first achieve is absolute harmony with the self. We need to develop the best possible relationship with the self. For unless we do, we are bound to encounter pain, hurt, struggle, suffering and stress in our equations with others. And we are bound to get more entangled in karmic debts.

So, there comes a point in our journey when we either choose a life more detached for rebuilding the self, or our experiences with others push us in the direction where our real growth is. Either way, when we really need it, when our soul has exhausted major powers and we must refuel, a solitary life awaits as the cure.