The Anu Gita has quite a long list of recommendations for the one taking to the path of renunciation. They must not perform deeds that
involve blessing someone for some particular cause or activity, nor should they support activities that involve pain, suffering and killing of life. They must not also hoard wealth and people. They should not indulge in this, and must not instigate others to do it either.
One may wonder why these rules and recommendations are so many. A person at that stage of life, renouncing everything to understand the highest truth, has indeed sacrificed a great deal.
If at the end of all the sacrifices, he is going to hold on to some activities, words or thoughts, it will in the end bind him to the world, the whole effort of the sadhana will be vain.
So these suggestions are only to point out the pitfalls so they may be duly avoided in pursuit of the supreme reality.
The person in quest of the truth must avoid craving for any particular state of experience, have a few belongings and move about with a vision that is equal towards all beings, mobile and static.
Such a person should not anger another creature, nor should he get irritated by another. The foremost among the knowers of a liberated state of mind is one who has the faith and support of all beings.
The mokshavid or the knower of liberation must not spend his time thinking about the future nor worry about what has gone by. He must be indifferent to the present moment too, disregarding all the three states of time, with a contained mind. He must not by sight, words or thoughts hurt another person. He must not do the wrong things either overtly or covertly.
Withdrawing his five sense organs of perception and five sense organs of action completely, like a tortoise which pulls in all its limbs, he must withdraw his senses and have no selfish desires. Such a person becomes the knower of the essence of life as existence. He must entertain no duality in the world.
There is nothing in the world that he will allow the word ‘I’ to be attached to. He will not do any yagnas for specific purposes with the offerings of swaha into the fire.
He will be a self-contained person without any idea of selfishness and considering things, people and situations as “my own”. He will be a person who will have nothing to do with collecting things and money, and maintaining them.
There is no doubt ever that the person who is free of hopes, qualities, who is calm and unattached to anything, who seeks the company of the self alone, will attain liberation.
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