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Aptavani-2
order to remove the wrong impression, people have to study,
but that study itself has lead to a wrong impression; the intellect
has taken over.
Today, no one understands a single word of Lord
Krishna. Sanyast yoga means to not have the awareness of ‘I
am the doer’, in all that one does; this is the definition of a true
sanyasi. There is not even a drop of sanyast in today’s so called
sanyasis. Placing the self in the Self is sanyast yoga. An absolute
sanyasi means dharma sanyas. This is the last sanyas (renunciation)
of ours (mahatmas of Dadashri). Here the Self remains as the
Self. Our religion is alaukik (beyond the world). In the relative
religions, the self is made to support all the penances and
renunciations through the body, supporting the ego.
Lord Krishna has said that a true sanyasi, whether he has
renounced the world, whether he is a family man or any other,
is the one who has these three qualities:
1. He does not have the pride of doer-ship.
2. He does not have any infatuation-asakti
3. He has no desires - kamna.
What is this infatuation (attraction; asakti)? Attraction is a
quality of the physical body. What is it like? It is like the
relationship between a magnet and a pin. The body becomes
attracted to whatever subatomic particles (parmanus), it is suited
to. The Soul has nothing to do with it, but people have an illusion
of feeling ‘I am attracted’. For us, those who have attained
Gnan, there is attraction through the physical body; the body
which has the qualities of attraction (asakti) and repulsion and
the Self is beyond all attractions (anasakta). The Self is never
pulled or attracted. True renunciation is defined as that in which
the Self does not become absorbed or become one (tanmayakar)
with the attraction. The false pride of doer-ship is verily the
attraction (asakti).