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end. "If I do this for 'X' I will get such and such return," this is the spirit of business, this is not love. True love lies in serving people without caring for and expecting a return. This love manifests from a real feeling of detachment.
Paramahamsa Satyananda's renunciation is in itself an example of detachment. With the spirit of detachment, he transcended all obstacles and broke all bonds that could have tied him down. He left his family, and when he was asked, "When will you return?" he said, "Never again." He did not return. He stayed for twelve years with his guru in his ashram at Rishikesh. Then he left to spread scientific yoga around the world. His colleagues in the ashram asked, "When will you return?" He gave the same reply, “Never again," and he did not return. During his travels, people asked him to remain, but he continued on his journey of propagating yoga. He established the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger, and left it after 25 years just the same way he had come, with only two dhotis. People asked him “When will you come back?" and he said "Never again." So breaking narrow barriers, and embracing the infinite dimensions is true love. I bow to that great guru, I bow respectfully to that supreme swami.
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