Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

Renunciation through desiring nothing from others.

 

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.