Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-5
Renunciation
3. He should be known as a perpetual renouncer, who neither hates nor desires. For, O Arjuna, one who transcends the pairs of opposites, is easily freed from bondage. When a person does not bemoan a lost thing or long for a thing unprocessed, who is mentally stable like the Meru mountain, and whose mind has forgotten the sense of ‘Me’ and ‘Mine’, O Arjuna, know him to be a perpetual renouncer (16-20). One having this attitude of mind rids himself of attachment, and thereby attains uninterrupted happiness. Such a person need not give up his home etc., as he has mentally become detached from them. When the fire is extinguished and reduced to ashes, cotton can safely be placed in it; so when a person’s intellect gets rid of all desires, though limited by conditions, he does not get bound by actions. When his desires completely vanish from his mind, he attains renunciation. For this reason, both renunciation and Yoga of action are similar (21-25).
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