SANYASA IS NOT LEAVING THINGS ON THE OUTSIDE……..

 Sanyasa is not leaving things on the outside. You do not become a sanyasi by leaving your worldly possessions such as family; friends; relations; property; money etc. Why it is so? Because, what you consider as yours, are, in any case, not yours. Death, in any way, will snatch away all your physical possessions, whether you are a sanyasi or not. Your physical possessions cannot come with you. Thus, you claiming to leave something which somehow is not yours, is ridiculous. If, by leaving worldly possessions, one becomes a sanyasi then all of us, too, will become sanyasis, one day, when we die because with death all our possessions too will be lost. 

The important thing which we need to understand is that the world (I use world as a common word to describe all what we know as our possessions such as family; relations; property; money etc) does not say ‘I’m’ yours. We say so. For example, does the house in which you live say “I’m yours”? No. It’s you who, say so. Thus the ‘pakad’ or attachment is yours and not of the world. Another name of ‘pakad’ or attachment is mind because attachment is in the mind and of the mind. Mind is attachment. This feeling or ‘bhava’ that these things are mine is an illusion and this illusion of mine is created by another illusion which we know as mind. Mind is an illusion (maya) because mind is non-existent. If you search within, you will not find anything which you can call as mind. Mind exists in and by thoughts only. When thought is, mind is and when thought is not, mind is not.

Thus the illusion itself is illusory. All other illusions which we know as ‘me’ and ‘mine’ are just offshoots of the main illusion; are simply extension of the main illusion. When the main thing i.e. mind itself is illusory then how its products or extensions could be real? The world exist in our mind. In truth, there is no such thing as world. World is just a thought which exists in our mind only. World appears with the mind. In sleep, the world does not exist because the mind does not exist. Only with our waking up, the mind arises and with mind, comes up the world too. 

Thus, what you really need to drop or leave is this tendency of ‘pakad’ because if you do not drop this then this samsakara of pakad or attachment will remain alive in you and you will get attached to something else if not physical possessions which you might claim to have dropped them in the name of sanyasa. Hence, so long this ‘pakad’ is alive in you, there is no liberation for you and thus the very purpose of sanyasa is defeated. You will come back in another physical form because this inherent tendency of attachment will force you to take another physical form and this is how this game of ‘avagaman’ (coming and going) keeps playing on you. This is like a dry tree which becomes full of leaves again when the rains come. Similarly, you will again take another body after death whether you are a sanyasi or a samasarik so long this tendency is alive in you. Even death cannot release you because death is only a temporary pause in this business of ‘avagaman’ Thus, what you really have to leave is that which goes with you, that which is the reason for your taking another body.  

Now you have hundreds of attachments – to your body; to your mind; to your family; to your property and so on. You cannot and do not have to drop all these attachments individually or one-by-one. Instead you need to know what is, that which is the source; that which is the mother of all these attachments. By dropping the source, you can drop all attachments in one go. We, now, know that mind is the source of all attachments. In fact, mind is nothing but attachment only and hence the only thing you need to do is to drop your mind; you need to kill or dissolve your mind.  The moment, the mind is dropped all else too drop automatically. And, if the mind is not dropped then nothing drops even though you may claim to have dropped all your worldly possessions in the name of sanyasa. 

Thus, until you drop your mind; until you dissolve your mind, whatever else you drop on the outside is nothing but just a play of your mind only. Further, even after becoming a sanyasi if you do not make efforts to leave your mind or individuality then you are not a sanyasi though you may look like a sanyasi by your appearance. On the other hand, if you consciously make efforts to drop your mind then you are a sanyasi even though you may be staying with your family. You will then be liberated while being alive and this game of birth and death will be over for you, once and for all. Meditation is a method to kill or dissolve the mind and thus putting a full stop to this business of ‘avagaman’.

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