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On Renunciation: Tyag, Sanyas, and Vairag – Part 3/3

For real renunciation demands the courage to give up the worldly Maya, which these cowards cannot do, bound and attached to it […]

On Renunciation: Tyag, Sanyas, and Vairag – Part 2/3

Otherwise, these so-called “sadhus” and “sanyasis” of the present day are generally mere idlers (dhongi, haramkhor) who wander here and there with […]

On Renunciation: Tyag, Sanyas, and Vairag – Part 1/3

For the ordinary people of the world, for the great mass of human beings, the best remedy for spiritual ignorance […]

Pearls before Swine

A swine, a hog, always lives on refuse and excrement. You may throw before it the best of food-stuffs or invaluable treasures, even diamonds […]

Annihilating Sanskaras: Two Analogies – 3. The simile of dream and awakening

(continued from previous post)

Let us take another simile. Suppose you are […]

Annihilating Sanskaras: Two Analogies – 1. The tailor and the coat

You people die a thousand deaths, and despite that, you stay where you are and do not progress. You continue […]

Giving up your life

“He who does not give up his life does not reach his Beloved God.”

… Now what is […]

Mind and the Working of Sanskaras – Part-2/2

As to the one who has realized God and is immersed in the state of Truth, such a one possesses, […]

Winning release from Maya (Part 3/3)

Take another example. Imagine a man without any teeth. Now, if a fine stalk of sugar cane were brought to him, what would he […]

Winning release from Maya (Part 2/3)

As for those who do have a Guru or a Guide, theirs is quite a different case. They have only to surrender […]