Where is the question of renouncement? -Srila Prabhupada

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> Too good to be taken lightly.

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> This doggish mentality has to be sacrificed.

> Otherwise, what you can sacrifice? What you have got? Renouncement. There is

no question of renouncement. You haven't got anything, what to renounce? When

you come naked, and you go naked. Simply by false, illusory conception, you

think: " This is mine, this is mine, this is mine. " Actually, when you take your

birth, you do not bring anything with you. And when you go away, you do not take

away anything. The things were there, and things will be there. You come and go.

But then where is the question of sacrifice? Where is the question of

renouncement? This is illusion. Isavasyam idam sarvam. Everything belongs to

God; nothing belongs to you. So what is the meaning of renouncement? And what is

the meaning of enjoyment? You cannot enjoy others' property, neither it is a

very nice thing if you say, " I renounce it. " Suppose you are passing through

Bank of America, if you say, " I renounce this. " Where, where? What is the

renouncement?

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> Bank of America belongs to you? This is craziness. You cannot enjoy the Bank

of America. If you go and try to enjoy, then you'll be criminal. And if you say,

" I renounce it, " then you are a madman. This is your position. But people are

going on under two impressions. Somebody, the karmis, they are thinking, " I am

enjoyer. I am the lord of all I survey. This America is mine. You cannot enter. "

So this is the karmi's position. Falsely, they are claiming proprietorship,

which does not belong to them. Thieves, rather; they are thieves, rogues. There

is a story that a, a group of thieves, they plundered some booty, some property,

somewhere, and then, out of the town, they were dividing. So one of the thieves

was speaking, " Please divide the property morally. " Now, the property's stolen

property, and they are speaking of " morally. " Devil recites scripture.

Similarly, you Americans, you have come from Europe, you have stolen this

property. Now you are speaking of morality.

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> HDG Srila Prabhupada