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of true renunciation, which takes shape in the life of an aspirant with right knowledge and right conviction.
USEFULNESS OF RENUNCIATION IN LIFE Indian cultural attitudes have always given great importance to renunciation in life. Even today in the materialistic society (Kaliyuga), person who renunciates some or all valuable things from his life occupies a very high place in the hearts of countrymen.
On one side, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaherlal Nehru, Subhaschandra Bose, Jaiprakash Narayana, Ravishanker Maharaj and similar distinguished persons have given due importance to renunciation in the public life of our country.
On the other side, saintly personalities like Swami Vivekananda, Swami Ramatirtha, Acharya Shantisagara Maharaj, Shree Ganeshprasad Varni, Shrimad Buddhisagarji and other saints have associated their lives with spiritual Sadhana and selflessly devoted themselves to their life mission with a true spirit of renunciation.
In brief, even today, the status of a renunciate person (Yogi) is far higher and more respected than that of a non-renunciate person (Bhogi).
SUCCESS OF RENUNCIATION Renunciation is possible only when an aspirant (Sadhak) fully knows what is to be renounced. In reality, ignorance and perversions are to be renounced. For accomplishing this, the ignorance consisting of l-ness and mine-ness in the body and worldly objects must go.
Again impure emotions like passion, anger, greediness, pride, and so on, should be discarded by the Sadhaka. This is to be done with a clear understanding that these impure emotional states lead to suffering and anxiety. They are impious, and opposed to the natural inclination of the soul and therefore, deserve to be totally shunned.
Just as these feelings of ignorance and the like, deserve to be discarded, even those incidents and objects which help to nourish these feelings also deserve to be curtailed. The great saints (Acharyas) know that the common people of the world
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