3 April 1982

Renunciation means to let go of everything and every situation, to step away from the feeling of anything belonging to you and to finish your rights to it. The one to whom you renounced that thing, it now belongs to that person. You cannot even have any thoughts of whatever you renounced, because you cannot take back anything that you have renounced or promised to renounce - even in your thoughts. For example, limited sannyasis renounce their homes and relations and go away. However, if they were to return home again, what would that be called? According to their rules, they cannot return. In the same way, you are unlimited renunciates. You have renounced your old homes, that is, your old bodies and the consciousness of old bodies. Your intellects had the thought of never again being attracted to that old home. You would not come back to it even in your thoughts. That was the first renunciation. 

Don’t be careless and think that you have let go of everything else, and so if only one of the physical senses causes mischief, that will automatically be put right in time. The fact is, the attraction of even one of the physical senses will stop you from belonging to the Father. It won’t allow you to stabilise in a constant and stable stage. It won’t allow you to enter number one (the first division). If someone has given up all their diamonds, jewels, and palaces but still has some attachment to a damaged earthenware vessel, what would happen? Just as a diamond attracts towards itself, similarly, the broken earthenware vessel would repeatedly attract that person even more than a diamond. Even against their conscious wish, their intellect would repeatedly be pulled towards it. In this way, if you are still attracted by any of the physical senses, then that will repeatedly bring you down and stop you from claiming an elevated status.  

Shakti means to be co-operative; not a Shakti with the head of arrogance, but someone who always has all arms, that is, someone who co-operates in every situation. Souls who have the ten heads of Ravan never co-operate even in small situations. Through the heads of “Why? What? How?” they would reveal their false arrogance. They solve the question of “Why?” and then raise the head of “How?” That is, they solve one thing and then start something else. The symbol of co-operation is the arms. This is why, whenever a task has to be accomplished collectively, what words do you use? Each one to give a finger. It becomes difficult when the heads of Ravan are created. When you become the Shaktis with many arms, it becomes easy. Simply take one step of giving co-operation and you receive multi-millions of steps of co-operation. However, you become afraid to take the first step. You forget what you are going to receive, and only remember what you have to give. This is why you find it difficult.