राम
Abhanga 857Renunciation

That We Should Renounce It

English Translation · I.P. 857

IF honour increases, do not repose on it; love of. the five elements will make you as one of WE SHOULD RENOUNCE THE WORLD 279 them. You must torment your own mind, or the organs of sense will drag it after them. When a man mingles with another, he will contract his colour through assimilating his own to it. Tuka says, God dwells apart and unconcerned; in human souls a spirit of change is ever at work.

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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Renunciation

The case for letting go of worldly attachments and turning wholly to God.

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