B.V Sridhar Maharaj

An advice for those who want to take sannyas

Then if you want to take sannyas, don’t say it using words, you have to show yourself in a renounce position, surrendered, dedicated in everything, you don’t have to believe that you aredoing something to the others, you just have to try to satify everybody, specially your benefactors, following the instructionsof Sri Sri Krishna, Goura Nitay, through out Sri Guru. That is a trying to leave this world.

Why did you want to be sannyasi?

-To travel? You will get pain in your kidneys, and your kness will cripple.

-To sit down on a vyasasana? You will see your spoilt defects further, pretending be an erudite.

-Because of the garland? Many times it seems to be taken out from the refrigerator and it numbs your neck.

-Because of glorifications? You won’t be satisfied because it is not enough like people glorify your ego.

-Because of Sannyasi’s plate? It is like a big exhibition thing where there is too much food and you feel embarrased...evermore your food gets cold.

Or maybe because you are afraid to fight until you feel exhausted, and you don’t want to take care your wife, and your children being responsable?

No! Sannyasi is to “put on the boots”, and take seriously this position seeking the highest objective.
Actually, sannyasi begins in no private life, no separated interests, be disposed to be revised and escorted by anyone. Be ready with grenades or weapons like in a battle field or like a nurse in a forgotten hospital, taking care about wound people of this meeting with the illusion.

Sannyasi has to know the illness and its cure.
That your patients say:

...he was with me chanting many times the Names of that who I believed that this was his God, until he helped me to understand that this God is mine as well.

...he helped me to know that love is not fight with the others, but embrace the truth, that life without the truth is to drag heavy things with sorrow.

...hegave me a real ocupation, taken me out from affections of things that one don’t want to lose without a certitude of having those things such as: fame, wealth, etc... what about peace, life, value, dignity, and loyalty.

At last, he put me under care of the True Protector.
...he dedicates his life because of me, I am important for him!

Sannyasi is like an open book, he identifies a Perfect Family, and he is a fortune for the society.