One can go on renouncing without plugging into one?s innermost core, the powerhouse of understanding. If it's not plugged in there, nothing much will happen except tiring one out. It's understanding that makes the difference, all the difference.

Reality cannot be avoided. Forget theories and listen to the facts. If you are miserable, then misery has to be looked into. When you are angry, then that anger has to be looked into. You feel sexual? Then forget about what others say about it; just look into it yourself. It is your life and you have to live it.

Don’t borrow. Never be secondhand. God loves people who are firsthand. He has never been known to love carbon copies. By the word original, I mean finding a solution for oneself, because it is in our problem that the solution is hidden. The problem is just a seed. If one goes into it deeply, the solution will sprout out of it. Our ignorance is the seed, and when we delve into it deeply, knowledge will flower out of it. Though the solution is not instant and may take time but once the process is understood, the problem cannot remain unsolved, or unresolved. Nature does not allow it. If you were to sometime count your blessings in the earnest, you’ll be surprised - oh, what fantastic coincidences! Nothing, can I claim of my own doing, then whose? Mystery and the thankfulness to whosoever it was!! God’s then? Can’t say! Again a mystery . . . everything seems to become something else that we never thought of!

That’s what the whole of modern psychology says: if you give up passion, you will become angry. It simply shows that the energy that was being released through sexuality, passion, is no longer finding an outlet. It is stuck inside, and you become more and more angry. You must have observed that when you are sexually fulfilled you feel less angry. The energy is transformed into taking subtler forms. Anger is more subtle than sex. Anger you renounce, greed remains. Greed is more subtle than anger. And greed you renounce; then vainglory, ego, remains. Ego is very, very subtle now. And you try to drop that but now the theories, the philosophies, the doctrines, they remain. Something or other remains. We go on changing our prisons, perhaps not even ever thinking of becoming free someday. That is how the mind plays tricks upon you, because it wants to remain a master, and you, a slave. Unless we realise the how, the process, in our journey from ignorance to knowledge – we will never be able to free ourselves of the bondage we call life.

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