Evolution of Love 2

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Sannyasa is the giving up of the ego.
Even though a person may be living as a householder in the family circle, the various occurrences of the world will not affect him if his ego is surrendered.

Just like dream experiences do not really affect us. As he quietly lies in his bed, a man dreams he is in water, but his bed is not really wet. On the other hand, a person in the sannyasa ashram,
yet who is still attached to the body, is a karmi (person of action, not renunciation).

So long as anyone thinks that they are a sannyasin, they are not one. So long as one does not think of world-illusion, one is not worldly but is a real sannyasin.

The patients must themselves take the medicine prescribed by the doctor to be cured of illness. So too, the guru prescribes the path, but the aspirants must themselves follow it.