The Significance of Austerity

In this track, Swamiji speaks about the important quality of austerity. He says that a seeker must reflect upon and understand what it means and live an austere life.

True austerity should be of the mind, intelligence and heart. In the level of the mind, austerity means, more and more of purity, less and less of impurity. In intelligence level, it should be more and more of the pursuit of spiritual wisdom.

Austerity is either one of denial or one of incorporation. It can relate to the body and senses first; mouth next; mind still next; intelligence still further, and finally it can refer to the ‘I’ or the ego.

Shlokas chanted in the Track:

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ।
(Bhagavad Gita-4.38)

धर्माणामस्ति सन्न्यासः

PR 07 Jul 2011