Stop renouncing, but be careful of what you are investing in

It’s human nature to want to acquire things. As children, we wish to grab – even if it is just to explore. We nourish our pride by gaining, even though religious texts urge us to take the path of detachment. For an ordinary soul, detachment in spirituality denotes leaving. Detachment for us is disownment, it’s like severance.

Now our basic nature of acquiring is always in conflict with our nature of disownment. If we desire spirituality, then we have to find a middle path. But I don’t think there is a midway. We just have to envisage our scriptures in context with the contemporary perspective. But according to my guru, there’s a practical solution that can offer one relief from ignorance. Although his approach is modern, it’s pragmatic.

We need not leave our basic nature of acquiring. So start accumulating, start possessing — do not think about renunciation. We just need to concentrate on what we want to acquire, what we want to possess, what we want to follow. Every soul has an inheritance of the immoral within. We just have to envision the part we want to see.

In today’s world, it will be impossible to swim through the ocean of life by changing our basic nature of acquiring. When our soul expands its ambit to attain the absolute, then our conscious helps us to gain salvation (if we may call it so). So rather than renouncing, start grabbing — but just be careful of what you are investing in.