Swamiji used to say, “Be ready to attach yourself and detach yourself at any moment!” We take up a job and become attached to it — we cannot detach ourselves from it. But this should not be. Look at Sri Ramakrishna. Hriday was ordered to leave Dakshineswar. The temple guard came and said to the Master, “You have to leave this place.”
“What do you mean? It is Hriday, not I,” replied Sri Ramakrishna.
The man said, “No, my master has ordered that both of you must go.”
Sri Ramakrishna put on his sandals and walked towards the gate. Trailokya Babu [grandson of Rani Rasmani] saw this from the kuthi [mansion], and ran and fell at the Master’s feet, saying: “Sir, why are you going? I have not asked you to leave.” Without saying a word the Master went back to his room. Imagine! There was not a bit of haughtiness in his renunciation. And how we raise dust over our deeds! Had we been in his place we would surely have given Trailokya Babu a piece of our mind. But the Master said nothing. He was as ready to leave as to return. (Source: Sri Ramakrishna as We Saw Him)
Renouncer and householder
Once a devotee named Rao, who always saw Swami Tyagishananda Maharaj engrossed in normal chores like cooking and tending cows, asked in a lighter vein, “Swamiji, what is the difference between a householder and you? We worry about our children and you worry about your cows”. Maharaj promptly replied, “Rao, there is an important difference. If tomorrow the Headquarters sends me a postcard asking me to leave to another Centre, I just take my loin-cloth and leave.” He then made a gesture of wiping his hands sideways, implying finishing with a task for good (and not even taking the dust of that place). “Can a householder walk out of his home in this way?” he asked. (See: Bhagavad Gita 3.25)