Fwd: What is a way to renounce something?

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Hare Krsna. Question: What is way to renounce something?Swamiji: The way to renounce something is to serve others, to give them happiness, and in return to not want anything from them. When favorable situations come our way, then we must call out to God, our Father, to please Save Us ! If we desire happiness even from our mother and father, our brother and sister, our wife and children, then too, it is a bondage that will not be wiped out. However much we read, however great a scholar we become, however great of a spiritual leader and deliverer of discourses we become, however great a writer we become, but as long as we desire happiness from another, as long as we desire leisure and rest, as long as we desire name and fame, as long as we desire respect, as long as we desire food, clothing, house, books, money for travel, then besides washing our hands off salvation, nothing else will be attained. Some say that without

bread (roti) we will die. Why? Do we not die even from eating the bread (roti)? Death is a certainty, what is new about that? One must have such strong conviction - Death ! so be it, but as long as there is life, I refuse to accept slavery. In death there is only gain, but having egoism, even in living there is no gain. As long as there is egoism, birth and death cycle will continue. In being a slave to the world, the inertness will continue to be strengthened. The truth of the matter is that, this body will die on the day that it is destined to die. It will not die even one moment prior to the destined date and time, nor will anyone be able to kill it prior to that time. From "Sant Samagam" in Hindi pg 29 by Swami Ramsukhdasji.

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