"Many people interpret renunciation to mean either giving away money and land as charity or performing rituals or sacrifices (yajna or yaga), or giving up hearth, home, wife, and children and proceeding to the forest. But renunciation does not mean such gestures of weak mindedness. These are not as difficult to give up as they are believed to be. The real renunciation is the giving up of desire. This is the real goal of a person’s existence, the purpose of all his efforts."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(Vidya Vahini, Ch.4)
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