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The Duties of Vanaprasthis and Sannyasins
He has no idea or perception of differences, because it has been dispelled by his realisation of Me. Till the fall of his body he may sometimes have a trace or a semblance of it and after that he attains a state of equality with Me. To the sage who has realised his unity with Me, the world will not appear real though he may mix in the world. [Though he may at times forget his blissful nature on account of the body and get deluded, he will soon regain knowledge by My grace and cast aside such temporary delusion. This will occur only in the case of those who have attained glimpses of Brahman. Those who are established in Bhuma, who have attained the full realisation will not be subject to any kind of delusion or difference.]
He who has become disgusted with the works and the objects of desire which necessarily land him in miseries, who has controlled the mind but has not yet made enquiries about the religion that lead to Me, should betake himself to a sage and make him as his preceptor.
Till he realises Brahman he should serve his preceptor like unto Me with care and devotion. He should have perfect faith in him and should not find faults in him.
But he who has not controlled the six human frailties or Shad Urmis viz., sorrow, delusion, hunger, thirst, decay, death, who allows his senses to run riot, who has no discrimination, who has not attained distaste for the transient pleasures of this world or the next, who uses Sannyasa as a means of livelihood is a violator of Dharma or a destroyer of religion. He cheats the gods, himself and Me who dwells in his Self. His dirty sins or impurities are not yet washed off. Therefore he falls from this as well as from the other world. He is deprived of both this life and the life to come.
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