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between the fire and the frying pan. The Soul cannot be attained
only through renunciation. Renunciation is a process that entails
great physical suffering. If liberation were to be attained through
renunciation, then liberation would also entail suffering. The Lord
has said that liberation is a natural process and is easily attained.
Even in the Kramic path, if you are going to renounce then
do so only if that renunciation results in elimination of anger,
pride, deceit and greed. Renunciation that increases anger,
pride, deceit and greed, is not renunciation.
The Lord has said, “Remain in pure awareness (shuddha
upayog).” Nevertheless, if you still have greed for the worldly
life and want worldly happiness, then do not hurt anyone and
make others happy. Attain such qualities and renounce those
that hurt others. But if you desire Moksha, then simply remain
in the awareness of the Self.
When you keep only that which is necessary, it is
considered renunciation. It is renunciation when you do not keep
twelve shirts when you need only four. Renunciation is to make
do with what you have. Only the person who has the Gnani
Purush to guide him is allowed to renounce, otherwise if anyone
tries to renounce, he will inevitably come under the growing
influence of intoxication of his renunciation.
There are two categories of worldly people: those inclined
towards renunciation of worldly life (tyagi) and the others
inclined towards worldly life (sansari). In the former when
intoxication of renunciation increases then the latter is illuminated.
And when the intoxication increases in the movement towards
worldly life, illumination occurs in the movement of renunciation.
Lord has said that one can become a vitarag from any state,
from the state of a renunciant or from one living a family life. A
woman too can become a complete vitarag. The only requirement
is that one has to be in a human form. Neither of the two has
a monopoly over illumination.