The Sacrifice of Waste and Impure Thoughts





 

The fifth sacrifice is the sacrifice of waste and impure thoughts. 

This type of sacrifice is of a very elevated stage. Not keeping anyone’s vices in your mind even after seeing them, not holding anyone’s weaknesses in your mind even after knowing them, not retaining complaints about anyone in your mind, not consuming negative or wasteful thoughts, sacrificing the ways, principles, vision, and thinking of the ignorant world, giving up the habit of taking delight in wasteful thoughts—this is the renunciation of a paramhans and it brings supreme peace. It includes the sacrifice of all impure desires, lusts, and cravings.

In the period of bhakti (devotional worship), people often fall into impure thoughts and worldly subjects immediately after returning from the temple. On the path of ordinary renunciation, people suppress their desires simply by staying away from sense-objects. But on this Godly path, the Paramhans path, even while being surrounded by people, situations, and material things, one sacrifices attachment to them on the basis of spiritual knowledge and remains detached from all these influences. What a great sacrifice this is!

 

Sacrifice of all bases


 

The sixth sacrifice is the sacrifice of all worldly bases or supports. Human beings have created many types of supports in this world. Some think, “My friend is posted in the Central Secretariat in a high position. If I ever face any difficulty from the government, I can rely on him.” Someone else thinks, “I have three sons; all are earning and healthy. They are the support of my old age.” In this way, people make one person or another their basis, depending on them for security and support, and pinning their hopes on them.

But the one who has truly renounced everything stands only on spiritual strength and faith in God. His one and only basis is the Supreme God, Shiv Baba, and His divine knowledge, yoga, and virtues. He considers himself to be dedicated to God and therefore does not even regard his own body as his; he considers it the Lord’s trust or inheritance. Thus, although he may work with the help of many people in this world, his yog (mental connection) remains only with the one Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, Shiv.

His firm determination is always fixed on that ever-powerful Supreme Being. Even great renunciates, after giving up everything, at least consider the ochre robe on their body as theirs, or they regard the kopin (loincloth) or dand (sacred staff) as their own. Fakirs too consider the staff in their hand as their possession. But in the satopradhan (pure and elevated) sacrifice that the Supreme Father, Supreme Soul, Shiv, has taught, those who follow it consider complete dedication to Shiv Baba as the true sacrifice and see everything they have as a gift from God.

They renounce all limited relationships and form a relationship only with the Truth. “Leave all connections; form one connection” and “Remember Me alone”—by following these directions, they renounce everything in the real sense.


 

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