Self Denial Develops Frustration..
In the front there is fire; at the back there is sun. In the night with knees struck to the chin, one receives alms in scooped palms; lives under trees; yet, the bondage of desires does not leave one!
From the above description, it is evident that true renunciation is not physically giving up comforts and pleasures but it is a mental state.
What matters is not reducing the number of possessions but dealing with your possessiveness. You may have less possessions but the possessiveness towards that possession still remains. You may develop maximum possessiveness towards your minimum possessions. Your possessiveness to one item could be far greater than that of a man who has many objects of comforts.
It is like giving up a thousand copper coins to pick up one gold coin. Therefore, it is renouncing possessiveness that matters, not the mere denial of possessions. Thus, he says that mere physical asceticism or abstinence, however great, is not the way to reduce the desires.
COURTESY: “Value Systems for Success” By M K Angajan
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