Fwd: Renunciation Through Desiring Nothing from Others

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Hare Krsna

 

 

It is indeed impossible for an embodied being to give

up all activities. Therefore it is said that he who renounces the

fruits of action is one who has truly renounced. GITA 18:11

 

 

 

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.