Without renunciation, without burning dispassion for sense-objects, without turning away from wealth and lust as from filthy abomination --"न सिध्यति ब्रह्मशतान्तरेSपि -- never can one attain salvation even in hundreds of Brahma's cycles".
Repeating the names of the Lord, meditation, worship, offering libations in sacred fire, penance -- all these are for bringing forth renunciation.
One who has not gained renunciation, know his efforts to be like unto those of the man who is pulling at the oars all the while that the boat is at anchor.
"न प्रजया धनेन त्यागेनैके अमृतत्वमानशु: -- neither by progeny nor by wealth, but by renunciation alone some (rare ones) attained immortality" (Kaivalya Upanishad, 3).
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
Repeating the names of the Lord, meditation, worship, offering libations in sacred fire, penance -- all these are for bringing forth renunciation.
One who has not gained renunciation, know his efforts to be like unto those of the man who is pulling at the oars all the while that the boat is at anchor.
"न प्रजया धनेन त्यागेनैके अमृतत्वमानशु: -- neither by progeny nor by wealth, but by renunciation alone some (rare ones) attained immortality" (Kaivalya Upanishad, 3).
- Swami Vivekananda,
Conversations and Dialogues,
recorded by Sharat Chandra Chakravarty
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