Renunciation in Action

Superb one hour talk by Swami Parthasarthy, the unique thing about this talk was that the speaker told the audience that his talk was not for their age group, instead, he was expecting their kids to come and make use of this talk. Of course, he knew kids don't come to talks hosted by a "Swami"; it's the mid-60 oldies who come to his talks (and a few like me), so he earnestly told everyone to go and share his points with kids in 15-35 age group, the age group that is in business, that has the whole of adulthood left.

The topic of the talk was "Renunciation in Action", the point he made was really enlightening, we don't give up anything, actually, we cannot give up anything, we can only take up something better.

You don't give up the toys you loved, you just take up a better toy, a bicycle.
You don't give up your bicycle, you just take up a better toy, computers.
You don't give up smoking and drinking, you just take up a better sport, exercise.

Erase the mentality of having to give up things in life to be able to get better things. You can evolve, you don't have to give up things you love, you just have to take up something better that you might love even more.

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