#Renunciation Quotes

“I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!”

“I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.”

“The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.”

“Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.”

“What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.”

“What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.”

“Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).”

“Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.”

“Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.”

“Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.”

“Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.”

“No freedom without renunciation.”

“Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts”

“Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.”

“This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.”

“Renunciation is in our blood.”

“The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.”

“That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.”

“Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.”

“Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.”

“Close your mouth,block off your senses,blunt your sharpness,untie your knots,soften your glare,settle your dust.This is the primal identity.”

“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”