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Renunciation: Not Giving Everything Up!
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Renunciation Is Not Giving Everything Up!
by Baba Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari
Do you rush about, getting stressed, trying to work on several projects in the same day or week? Do you seldom take the time to remember to surrender all these projects, along with yourself, to the grace and flow of the energy of God? You probably never thought of this practice as renunciation, but yes, that is exactly what it is. When you learn to renounce, it does not mean you give everything up. It simply means you renounce the doer-ship of all you do, fulfill your duty with your best effort, and trust the results to the Divine.
Renunciation is essentially giving up the unwanted clutter of life. You need to be a sculptor, looking at the stone, yet seeing at the same time the image that you want to create from it. The image is already there; you only have to chip away the unwanted parts!
Following the Truth does not need any renunciation or giving up other than moment-to-moment awareness of what you are doing and what you are thinking. Then, you can remove the unwanted from your system, while tuning your subtler system with the higher self already within you. You don’t have to give up this or that; give up nothing, but your false identification with your ego. You do not need to leave everyone and everything behind and become a renunciate monk or nun to find peace and solitude in life. Instead, try the following experiment.
Lie on the bed and totally relax. Relax every part of your body and know that you have nothing to do. There is nothing to do. That is the most important thing you have to learn. You have nothing to do. Nothing. Nothing at all. Everything that you do, you do by the grace and power of God. You do nothing.
That is the true renunciation; realizing that you have nothing to do, that the Divine does everything through you. What is renunciation? It is not becoming a monk or nun. It is not living in the forest, in the mountains, or the monastery. It is renouncing all that you do; it is renouncing all the effort in what you do. You trust. You surrender. You do what you do without any effort at all, in the flow of the life that you are.
OM Times is a leading voice of the Conscious Community with articles covering the full spectrum of Conscious Living. Click here to see all we share.
Source: http://omtimes.com/2015/09/renunciation-not-giving-everything-up/
