- Mild dispassion is to let whatever is continue as it is, just to go on repeating the name of God.
- But in one who has deep dispassion, the prana (life breath) becomes restless for God, like a mother restless for the child in her womb.
- A person who has deep dispassion does not want anything but God. That person sees the world as a deep well and feels that he is drowning in it.
- Having become burnt by the fire of the world, one puts on gerua. Such dispassion does not last long.
- There is the man who has everything, who lacks nothing, but does not enjoy anything. He weeps only for God. This kind of dispassion is genuine dispassion.
- Any untruth is bad. Even false garb is not good. If one’s dress does not correspond to one’s mind, it gradually brings complete ruin. By speaking lies or practicing falsehood, one gradually loses the fear of it. It is better to wear white clothes. When there is attachment in the mind and lapse of the ideal within while wearing gerua – this is dreadful!
- One can realize the Lord when one has developed deep dispassion (vairagya). He who develops it feels that the world is a forest on fire – it is ever burning! When one has such dispassion, one leaves one’s home.
- They who have felt dispassion since their youth, they who wander about yearning for Bhagavan, they who have not entered family life, indeed belong to a separate class. They are pure aristocrats. In their deep dispassion they remain fifty cubits away from women lest the latter should bring a change in their attitude.
- They who have the right kind of dispassion from an early age belong to a higher spiritual ideal (‘abode’). They have an extremely pure attitude. They never allow a single stain to touch them.
- By leisurely playing the drum at a slow beat, you cannot attain much. A deep dispassion (vairagya) is needed. Stretching the year to fourteen months is futile. It seems you have no firm determination, no grit. You are like flattened rice soaked in milk. Be up and doing! Gird your loins!
- Dispassion means a distaste for worldly things. This does not come about all of a sudden. It has to be practiced daily. To begin with, you have to renounce ‘lust and greed’ in the mind. Then, God willing, you can renounce them externally as well as internally.
- There are two kinds of dispassion, deep and mild. Mild dispassion is slow, like a slow beat on the tabla. Deep dispassion, on the other hand, is like the sharp edge of a razor. It cuts the bondage of maya in two at once.
- There is another kind of dispassion. It’s called monkey renunciation. A householder burned by the fire of worldly life puts on gerua and goes to Kashi. For many days there is no news about him. At last a letter is received, ‘Please don’t worry. I have found work here.’
- There are different kinds of dispassion. What is called ‘monkey renunciation’ is one of them. It is the dispassion a person feels after being tormented by the fire of the world. It doesn’t last long.
- Real dispassion is when a person possesses everything, lacks nothing, but it all appears to be unreal.
- This non-attachment doesn’t happen all of a sudden. It comes in its own time. It’s good to hear spiritual talk, because when the right time comes, then one will remember and think, ‘Oh, I heard about that.’
- When a person develops deep dispassion, all such calculations vanish. Feeling intense nonattachment, it just doesn’t come to the mind, ‘Let me first arrange everything for the family and then I will take to spiritual practices.’
- When a person attains deep dispassion, the world appears like a deep well and one’s family like deadly snakes. That person doesn’t calculate, saying, ‘Let me save my money and arrange my worldly affairs.’ God alone is the Reality and everything else is unreal. Thinking of the world, abandoning God!
- Intense renunciation is necessary. It has to be like a naked sword removed from its sheath. When such dispassion arises in the mind, near and dear relatives appear like deadly snakes, and the home like a deep well. And you have to call on God earnestly, with a yearning heart. He is bound to listen to an earnest call.
- There is a kind of renunciation called monkey renunciation. It is the renunciation of people of little understanding. A widowed mother supported herself and her son by spinning. The boy lost the small job that he had. As a consequence, he felt he should renounce the world. He put on ochre and went to Kashi. But in a few days he wrote to say that he had found a job paying ten rupees a month. He tried to buy a gold ring, a dhoti and a shirt with it. How could he get rid of that desire for enjoyment?