In this talk, Swamiji explains that renunciation is developing samatva—an even attitude towards sukha and duhkha, gain and loss, victory and defeat, and all pairs of opposites. When these fleeting mental responses lose their hold, the underlying inner presence, the ‘I’, is revealed as the unchanging fullness. True renunciation involves relinquishing wrong ideas, evaluations, preferences, prejudices, desires, possessiveness, and attachment.

Swamiji emphasizes that spiritual progress depends on a resolute intelligence that does not become multi-branched or distracted by worldly prosperity and enjoyment. Krishna advises Arjuna to transcend the three gunas, remain free from dvandvas, and abide in pure sentience.
By renouncing attachment to the fruits of action and maintaining equanimity towards success and failure, one attains Yoga. Through discrimination and right understanding, the mind and intelligence become expansive and enriched. Sannyasa is therefore an inner empowerment that enables one to act without agitation, for universal welfare.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
0:00 - Introduction
13:48 - सुखदु:खे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ ...Bhagavad Gita 2.38
22:15 - व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन ...Bhagavad Gita 2.41
26:51 - यामिमां पुष्पितां वाचं प्रवदन्त्यविपश्चित: ..Bhagavad Gita 2.42
27:04 - कामात्मान: स्वर्गपरा जन्मकर्मफलप्रदाम् ..Bhagavad Gita 2.43
27:13 - भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम् ...Bhagavad Gita 2.44
30:10 - त्रैगुण्यविषया वेदा निस्त्रैगुण्यो भवार्जुन ...Bhagavad Gita 2.45
36:35 - यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वत: संप्लुतोदके ...Bhagavad Gita 2.46
39:28 - योगस्थ: कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय ...Bhagavad Gita 2.48
43:50 - बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते ...Bhagavad Gita 2.50
50:07 - मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि सन्न्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा ...Bhagavad Gita 3.30
1:10:15 - अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्र: करुण एव च ...Bhagavad Gita 12.13
1:16:00 - यदहङ्कारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे ...Bhagavad Gita 18.59
1:22:23 - सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु ...Bhagavad Gita 6.9

2026 Gurupoornima Retreat Session by Poojya Swamiji
Date: 03 August 2026

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