What is Renunciation ?
by Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Once Nisargadatta's Guru, Siddharameshwar Maharaj initiated him into the Inchegiri Sampradaya, giving him meditation instruction and a mantra, which maharaji began to recite. Inchegiri Sampradaya is another branch of Navnath Sampradaya.
So After Following an ascetic life, he was getting very popular , so people from other countries used to come only to get some life lesson or just listen that he was saying, Maharaji also had a translator because he used to only say Marathi language this Language is the Mother Language of Maharashtra State in India.
So Once his Disciples asked him about what inspired him into this ascetic life so Maharaji replied the quote that was given by his guru which was "You are not what you take yourself to be". after listening the quote disciples were confused but wanted to know more about it. After that Maharaji told I am talking about Renunciation so later everyone was eager to know the essence of the quote
so it started as:
You do not need to attempt to gain eternal bliss of the self through renunciation of your pleasures, fulfillment's and fleeting happiness! If you merely renounce outwardly when you have not yet awoken to your real self of bliss on the divine level of real being, such a maneuver will only cast you into inward emptiness,sorrow, regrets and extreme spiritual disappointment in spite of ascetic self-tortures.
Once Nisargadatta's Guru, Siddharameshwar Maharaj initiated him into the Inchegiri Sampradaya, giving him meditation instruction and a mantra, which maharaji began to recite. Inchegiri Sampradaya is another branch of Navnath Sampradaya.
Just as we do not achieve self-realization through blindly keeping busy in repeated pleasure and outer work, so we do not achieve it through cultivating deliberate pain and loneliness. In truth, if you can hear it, there is nothing to be done and nothing to give up. Just remember to be ever looking in your awareness of being hidden within the thought of "I am".
Question the validity of karmic activity, of the endless motives of pursuing elusive desires and ambitions, of having to experience the failure to achieve, the sense of frustration, dissatisfaction, of being blindly driven. Learn to simply look at what is really happening within and through
you and others due to identification with the outer person of body and mind.
Learn that you are beyond consciousness, beyond emotion, beyond physical pleasure and pain. Become truly realistic. This has nothing to do with just suddenly stopping your pleasures and fulfillment's. That would be like suddenly jamming on the brakes of your automobile and causing a lurching crash. Even when you know you must stop the vehicle, it takes adequate time and space to come to a stop safely.
Real wisdom and learning do not require suddenly forceful self-destruction of the human
heart. Be firm but gentle with your heart, like a loving parent with a child.
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