Understanding Sannyas: The Path to Enlightenment
In today’s world, redefining Sannyas means more than renouncing material possessions—it’s about embracing responsibility as the ultimate path to liberation. When you don’t take responsibility for anything, you live as a slave. However, as you begin to take on responsibilities, you ascend through different societal roles:
- Vaishya: When you take responsibility for the money of society.
- Kshatriya: When you take responsibility for the weapons of society.
- Brahmana: When you take responsibility for the knowledge of society.
- Sannyasi: When you take responsibility for everything.
Redefining Sannyas: The Story of Buddha and Inheritance
After enlightenment, Buddha visited many places preaching his dhamma or teachings, and initiating people into spiritual life. On his way, he entered Kapilavastu, his birth place. He walked on the streets with his disciples wearing the saffron robe. Everyone watched them with great wonder. Buddha’s wife, Yashodhara, heard the noise in the street and asked what it was. Her maids told her that it was none other than her own husband who had returned as the Buddha, the enlightened soul. She did not go to meet him. Instead, she called for her son Rahul. Rahul was born the night that Buddha left home in search of enlightenment. She asked Rahul, ‘Do you see that radiant figure there who holds a begging bowl and yet looks like a king? He is your father. Go and ask him for your inheritance.’
The young boy ran downstairs and pushed his way through to where Buddha stood. He fell at Buddha’s feet and boldly repeated what his mother had told him. Buddha lifted him up gently with a smile and looked at him. He simply removed the gold hemmed cloth the boy was wearing and replaced it with a saffron one.
The boy, seven years of age, was given his inheritance. He was the first and only child allowed into the monastic order of the Buddha.
The Essence of Sannyas: A Journey Beyond Completion
When a soul completes its shallow expectations of life after countless births and is finally ready for the spaciousness beyond completion, that is when one raises the taste for life and the possibility of aligning to the ultimate reality, true liberation, the freedom to travel on the ultimate journey, the journey to enlightenment blossoms, that is the state of Sannyas. The required threshold to reach the highest peak possibility and potential of a being is achieved through living the life of Sannyas.
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The Kathopaniṣad states:
“Arise! Awake! Wake up your Self and awaken others! Approach the great Awakened Ones till you awaken and manifest your Complete Self.”
This path is often described as sharp as a razor’s edge—difficult yet rewarding.
Reclaiming Your Original Taste for Life
Sannyas involves saying ‘NO’ to societal ignorance and reclaiming your original taste for life. It is about transcending external needs and allowing your mind to radiate love and responsibility towards the world.
Sannyas means aligning your thoughts with ultimate possibilities—integrity and authenticity. It encompasses awakening all your inherent powers, understandings, realizations, and goals.
Sannyas is “aligning your thinking to the ultimate possibility, aligning your thinking to the ultimate reality, aligning your thinking to Integrity and Authenticity. Awakening all the different powers in you is “Sannyas”. Awakening all the various powers in you, awakening all the various possibilities in you, awakening all the various understandings in you, awakening all the various realizations in you, awakening all the various goals in you is “Sannyas”. Please listen, awakening you to you is “Sannyas”. AWAKENING YOU TO YOU IS “SANNYAS”!
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Awakening You to You is Sannyas!
In conclusion, embracing Sannyas is about awakening your true self and stepping into a space where love and responsibility flourish. It invites you to live consciously and align with the ultimate reality.
By understanding these principles of Sannyas, one can embark on a transformative journey towards enlightenment and liberation from societal constraints.
