{"id":4025,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:56","slug":"18-rununciation-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/03-questions-and-answers-volume-03\/18-rununciation-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-18_Rununciation.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nRenunciation
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\n<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nT<\/font><\/span>here is in
\nbooks a lot of talk about renunciation that you must renounce possessions,
\nrenounce attachments, renounce desires. But I have come to the conclusion that
\nso long as you have to renounce anything you are not on this path; for, so long
\nas you are not thoroughly disgusted with things as they are, and have to make
\nan effort to reject them, you are not ready for the supramental realisation. If
\nthe constructions of the Overmind \u2013 the world which it has built and the
\nexisting order which it supports \u2013 still satisfy you, you cannot hope to
\npartake of that realisation. Only when you find such a world disgusting,
\nunbearable and unacceptable, are you fit for the change of consciousness. That
\nis why I do not give any importance to the idea of renunciation. To renounce
\nmeans that you are to give up what you value, that you have to discard what you
\nthink is worth keeping. What, on the contrary, you must feel is that this world
\nis ugly, stupid, brutal and full of intolerable suffering; and once you feel in
\nthis way, all the physical, all the material consciousness which does not want
\nit to be that, will want it to change, crying, \u201cI will have something else \u2013
\nsomething that is true, beautiful, full of delight and knowledge and
\nconsciousness!\u201d All here is floating on a sea of dark unconsciousness. But when
\nyou want the Divine with all your will, all your resolution, all your
\naspiration and intensity, it will surely come. But it is not merely a matter of
\nameliorating the world. There are people who clamour for change of government,
\nsocial reform and philanthropic work, believing that they can thereby make the
\nworld better. We want a new world, a true world, an expression of the
\nTruth-Consciousness. And it will be, it must be \u2013 and the sooner the better! <\/span><\/p>\n

It should not, however, be just a subjective change. The whole
\nphysical life must be transformed. The material world does not want a mere
\nchange of consciousness in us. It says in <\/span>
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\nPage \u2013 128<\/span><\/p>\n

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effect: \u201cYou
\nretire into bliss, become luminous, have the divine knowledge; but that does
\nnot alter me. I still remain the hell I practically am!\u201d The true change of
\nconsciousness is one that will change the physical conditions of the world and
\nmake it an entirely new creation.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 129<\/span><\/p>\n

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