The Difference Between Renunciation & Denial - Sadāshivoham

Participant - From taking a Krama Brahmacharya… the thought current of renunciation, I caught the….how amazing it is, but its like somewhere along the line, this denial thought current and this renunciation thought current got mixed and on the day zero, you are talking about the neo-Vedantis idea of this violent...we have a fight inside and I was wondering if you could explain, the difference between denial, renunciation and how the whole thing leads deeper….

Swamiji - Somebody came and asked Me, that me and my wife are not able to get along, so we both want to take Sannyas. I said, then you think that we are all like that?!!! ☺ Then I told him, “Look around, all of them are like that? My Sannyasis?” Sannyas is not because you are not able to live with your wife, but because you can’t share your body anymore with anybody other than Sadāshiva. It become too intimate! Other than the space of Sadāshiva, I can’t open Myself up to anything else! It’s too much! That space is Sannyas; not that - “because I can’t handle this one. Let me run away and become……”

Understand. Sannyas is positive affirmation of your existence, not negative escapism. Positive affirmation of your existence, not negative escapism.... and that also needs lot of will persistence and not giving up, not giving up.