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Use Everything for Guru We may keep everything and continue our usual activities, but we should learn how to devote them to Guru. If we are businessmen, we should use our profits to spread Krishna consciousness. We should spend our money for Guru Seva. This ensures that it goes to Krishna directly. Do we accept food from a beggar ? How can Krishna accept anything from sinners like us ?! Only a Guru is pure enough to offer him his choicest things. If we are housewives, we should continue to cook and clean, but we should cook and clean for our husband's Guru. If we have a nice house, we should make it fit for the Guru to visit it. Everything can be dovetailed for Guru's service. In this way, we shall become free from material desire. Renunciation does not mean to renounce our car, money, wife and house. We should not give up everything--we should use everything to serve Guru! The wise who know this perfectly engage in Guru's devotional service and worship him with all their hearts. |
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Anything unnecessary should be renounced for the sake of conserving our energy and applying it in Guru bhakti. Advancement of material civilization means indulging in unrestricted sense gratification and manufacturing paraphernalia or commodities for sense enjoyment. Human energy is wasted in factories and war fields just for creating paraphernalia for sense gratification, such as automobiles, airplanes, tape recorders and telephones. All such paraphernalia are anarthas (unwanted, unnecessary)--they are not necessary for maintaining the body and soul. Smoking and drinking will not improve our life physically, mentally, intellectually or spiritually. Anarthas are stumbling blocks on the path of spiritual advancement. The prerequisite of spiritual life is to become peaceful and happy. That is achieved by regulating our bodily activities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending.
Bhagavad-gita (6.16) says: There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogi if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough.
Everyone has to maintain his body, but he should not endeavor for more than is necessary. When we eat, we use salt and pepper. If we put in too much salt, the meal will be spoiled. If we use too little, then the meal will not be palatable.
Eating, sleeping, defending and mating are jut a small part of daily life. The bulk of our energy should be applied in devotional service, and a minimum amount of energy should be spent for bodily maintenance. Advancement of material science, technology, medicine, politics and economics is a fever in the body of human society.
Renunciation Means Accepting Responsibility in Service to GURU and GURU ALONE !!!!!