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Renunciation is nothing but the ability to rejuvenate yourself continuously by dropping
the different identities you create for certain purpose, but unfortunately associate yourself
with it, feel one with it. Renunciation is of different levels; renouncing the external
wealth which you decide to possess and identify yourself with it, renouncing the name and
fame with which you identify yourself and possess and feel as one with, renouncing people
with which you identify yourself, possess and feel one with, renouncing the identities
which you possess and identify yourself and feel one with. Among these renunciations,
renouncing the identity is the ultimate renunciation.
Renunciation is the most intelligent thing a living being can do because renunciation
continuously rejuvenates and creates a possibility for higher expressions in your being. When
the highest expression happens, you cross the border of renunciation and renunciation
itself becomes your very being. When your very core becomes renunciation, the constant
purification, a continuous intelligence shining becomes your life.
Constantly renouncing thoughts is unclutching, living renunciation as a lifestyle is living
enlightenment. Ajapa japa is a powerful way of renouncing the words and thoughts continuously
happening in you. Feeling connection is a powerful method to renounce all the emotions
which are not necessary happening in you. Unclutching is the ultimate renunciation,
renouncing all the identities which are unnecessary happening in you. Renunciation is the ultimate
purification process to live enlightenment.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The first question on renunciation we have is from Ravi from Vancouver, Canada: ‘Dear
Swamiji, why should one become neutral to physical needs?’
The why do not does not have answer. When the spiritual evolution happens, when spiritual
powers are unfolding through your body, becoming neutral to physical needs just happens. As
a flow of life this expresses naturally in you.
He is also asking, ‘Isn’t the very creation of male and female and the senses also the
gift of Existence?
Existence provides everything including poisons. It is up to you to use what you want and live
the way you want based on the goal you want to reach and the purpose you feel as your
life’s mission.
‘While savoring the gift of Existence, can’t we achieve the same highest coherence that
we can achieve through renunciation?’
Whether you savor or renounce, in the end, only when the identities are renounced highest
is achieved. Even what you call as savoring, in the end only when you are able to renounce
the identity, the base, ultimate is achieved. Whatever you understand as savoring will not
lead you to the ultimate and whatever you understand as savoring will not lead you to
achieve the ultimate truth. Whether you live with it or leave it, identity needs to be
dropped. Only when you renounce the identity ultimate is achieved. If you can renounce
the identities, even if those things are around you, you will achieve the ultimate. If you
can’t renounce the identity, even if you physically move away from those things you
may not be able to achieve the ultimate. Finally everything boils down to renouncing the identities.
‘The next question is from Sri Nithya Gnanaprabhananda: ‘What is the true meaning of renunciation
in the path of sannyas?’
Renouncing all the outer world objects, which you feel as your possession become one with
it out of your delusion, renouncing all the people, renouncing all the places, renouncing
all the pleasures, renouncing all the thoughts, renouncing all the identities; renunciation
in its complete pure form is sannyas. The sannyas, even the training of the sannyas
done by an incarnation constantly reminds you into the renunciation and puts you in
renunciation.
The next question is from Joyce: ‘How are freedom and renunciation related?’
Renunciation is freedom, freedom means renunciation.
The next question is from Estelle Reiter from France: ‘Dear Mahadeva and Kalabhairava,
dear Master, I listen to many of Swamiji’s videos and I realize that I have a deep misunderstanding
about renunciation and so many questions are coming up. How do I know whether my bio-memory
is ready for renunciation?’
All bio-memories by nature programmed for renunciation. It is your mind which goes against
the renunciation, creates more and more troubles and identities, misconceptions. If you allow
your bio-memory to function in a free natural way, you will not over-eat, you will not over-see,
you will not over-enjoy, you not indulge in anything. As a natural flow you will renounce.
Renunciation is way of life, flow of life as per cosmic law.
She is also asking, ‘Does it necessarily involve spiritual celibacy?’
Celibacy means just keeping yourself physically mentally emotionally away from ***. The renunciation
in the ultimate sense is keeping yourself away from identities. If *** is going to
awaken certain strong identities in you, keeping away from that identity is renunciation. If
keeping away from the *** physically mentally emotionally helps you to be away from the
identity, then that path can be used as a method to renounce the identity. But ultimate
is renouncing the identity. If you think by keeping yourself physically away the identity
is not disappearing, it is only becoming more and more strong getting strengthened, then
going through the *** and transforming it into love, the pattern out of which you can
easily unclutch and renounce and evolve and be free, can be evolved. It is like diluting
the strength of the patterns. *** is too strong pattern. If you can go into it and
go through it with awareness, the patterns gets diluted. The influence of that pattern
over you gets reduced. Then it flowers into love, then that pattern by nature is very
simple, does not have too much power over you. You can easily move to the next level
- patternless renunciation, full blown being, fully flowered enlightened being.
She is also asking, ‘What is a spiritual couple?’
There is no such thing as spiritual couple in cosmic law. Spiritual means all alone by
yourself. Two spiritual beings does not make spiritual couple. They only make two spiritual
beings.
The next question is from Mahanand Mrityunjay from Bangalore: ‘Swamiji pranam, which one
is a true and real renunciation to be practiced – a) mental level renunciation b) physical
or material renunciation?
If you are established in the material level, if your mind identify itself constantly in
material level, material level renunciation also should be practiced. If you are established
only in mental level, mental level renunciation is enough. But mental level renunciation is
necessary for everyone. Material level renunciation can be decided based on the level in which
you are established.