- 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!