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 Thursday 26 February 2026

WAY TO FREEDOM

Swami Sivananda

Tyaga or renunciation is the way to mental peace and freedom. In order to renounce, you must possess something. The renunciation of one who has nothing, is no renunciation at all. It is the renunciation of desire, egotism and attachment that constitutes true renunciation. Renunciation and detachment indicate selfdenial, self-effacement and dispassion. To say that you have no desires, just because you do not have the means to have the objects of desire or the initiative to attain a desire, makes no sense. To be desireless you must have a real understanding of the world. Renunciation is not something negative. On the contrary, it is a positive attitude of life to the objects and values of the world. Contd…


Whatever be your idea of God, you will be taken to the ultimate God. All these gods of religions are like various passages leading to the ultimate ocean of the one Godhead, which is inconceivable, and so we take recourse to all these particular concepts.

- Swami Krishnananda

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