V — Detachment and renunciation

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A spiritual seeker must know that austerity is an abnormality inasmuch as it is a disturbance of the natural balance of forces in the different parts of our consciousness.

Austerity does not give self-mastery.

In true detachment is the real self-mastery. Just as earth has temptations for an ordinary man, so Heaven has temptations for an advanced seeker.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Beyond Within — A Collection of Writings 1964-1974, 1974
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