SB 11.23.13 – Renunciation is a gift that can come anytime Be ready to grab it

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thank you so this is the past time of the Avanti Brahmana he was a very wealthy and miserly Brahmin who had because of a series of misfortunes lost everything and everyone normally losing everything and everyone happens at the time of death but for this Brahmin because of a series of misfortunes death had come in the sense of disposition of everything before physical death had come and because of that he was in an immense sense of lamentation lamenting desperately his throat was filled with choke with tears and he started meditating deeply he was lamenting but he was thinking what has happened why has this happened all his wealth had gone away and here interesting word is used normally we say the word tapasya in a positive sense if somebody chooses to do austerities for the sake of purification but this person had not chosen to become poverty stricken he had been forced so tapasya involves tap which means choosing a miserable situation the purpose of choosing that miserable situation is to give ourselves an opportunity to experience God so by experiencing misery at the material level the principle of tapasya is that when we voluntarily choose to experience misery at the material level then that forces us to raise our consciousness upwards from the material level to the spiritual level and that brings purification that brings spiritual advancement so this brahmin had been put in a situation of misery and although he had not chosen to do that also voluntarily for the sake of purification and elevation but that’s what was going to happen to him now he had he was a brahmin he had been born in a good cultured family and he had done pious activities in the past but due to the effect of the material energy he had become extremely materialistic and miserly but now the past pious upbringing which he had those samskaras came to his rescue and nirveda sumahana bhoota nirveda nirveda is detachment and what kind of detachment? sumahana extremely powerful detachment came up in the jabbali upanishad it is said that the moment one gets renunciation, gets vairagya one should renounce the world so the sometimes people people feel that if I get a feeling of renunciation will it last for long or not? yes it may not last and we cannot be irresponsible and run away from our duties in the name of renunciation but when convictions arise in our heart sometimes we hear so often that this will lead to misery that will lead to misery but there are some moments when we do get a deep inner conviction yes this is it I understand if somebody is addicted and the person has to break free from addiction the person may hear from many people that you know addiction is bad and the person may experience also addiction is bad but there is a particular moment when it is as if a light is turned on within oneself and one says oh what have I done? why am I courting misery like this? let me put a stop to this and when one gets that at that time that sort of feeling of renunciation is a precious gift from God and we should grab it and act on it not necessarily in terms of renouncing the world externally but in terms of maximizing our devotional commitments and our devotional connections and maybe noting down that realization those feelings those convictions those thoughts and treasuring them so here we got a great renunciation and and that sort of renunciation which is a gift coming from Krishna can come while we are chanting and it can help us also in our chanting both ways in one sense when we are chanting we are disconnecting from the material world and connecting with the spiritual world so for that we need some nirvedha some detachment from the material world and by remembering these sort of moments whenever we have had them in the past we can get the strength to chant and by chanting attentively also we get these moments and these moments when conviction comes no amount of philosophical study no amount of reasoning no amount of analysis can equate that arrival of renunciation from within when we sort of just see through the illusions of maya yeah this is not going to make me happy just let me put an end to that and that is a great gift for us so we can use this gift in Krishna’s service while chanting and we can get this gift from chanting if we chant attentively and prayerful