Baba says, “In order to become completely pure, you have to become a beggar. Forget all your relationships, including your body, and remember Me, for only then will you become pure.“

A beggar is a renunciate. Just as with everything else, even renunciation happens numberwise. As such, there are three types of renunciates, Baba explains. 1) renunciates, 2) great renunciates and 3) complete renunciates. All three have renounced, that is, become beggars, but numberwise.

Renunciates are those who have renounced through knowledge and yoga, the temporary benefits they got from their old relationships and old connections of the old world, and who have in their thoughts adopted the Brahmin life, that is, a yogi life. In other words, I have grasped the fact that a yogi life is more elevated than my old life and that permanent attainment is more important than temporary attainment. I practice knowledge and yoga and have claimed a right to be a Brahma Kumar or Kumari. However, I still haven’t completely transformed my old relationships, thoughts and sanskars and am constantly engaged in battling to transform them. One moment I have Brahmin sanskars and next minute, I am battling to transform an old sanskar. This, Baba explains, is called being a renunciate but not having complete transformation.

I realize that to renounce the old world is to experience the greatest fortune- I get this, but two main obstacles get in the way of my renunciation. 1) I lack the courage to face obstacles and 2) carelessness in the form of loving comfort. I understand everything, I move along, I make effort, I am determined to live this Brahmin life but the moment an obstacle comes in the form of a situation or a person or a circumstance, I lose courage. I become disheartened, bitter, resentful, angry, pitiful and all the rest. I lack the courage to actually put the points of knowledge I have learnt into practice. As a result, I don’t live a victorious life, I battle sanskars and relationships. Similarly, I study all four subjects and I am progressing but…at my own pace, in comfort. I lack the form of a Shakti– the one who has all the weapons I need to bring about that complete transformation. I am loving but I don’t have the form of power. I understand that I am a master almighty authority but I am unable to be that. This is why I am a renunciate but not a great renunciate.

A great renunciate is someone who constantly has the courage and enthusiasm to transform their relationships, thoughts and sanskars. They are constantly detached from the old world and old relationships. My experience is that the old world and the old relations are dead to me and so I don’t need to battle for this. I become a mahagyani (greatly knowledgeable soul), a mahayogi (a great yogi) and a co-operative server who is an embodiment of power. So what’s left? While I have broken the iron chains of the past life, of the old world, I become tied in the golden chains of ‘I’ and ‘mine’: “I am a very good knowledgeable soul! I am a gyani and yogi soul!” This golden chain often hinders me from becoming free from all bondage. I have indeed become a gyani and yogi soul, I have become very well-known in the Brahmin family, maybe I’ve even become a VIP among well-known servers, I am being showered with flowers of praise….but with all this, I have also become trapped in it. Rather than donate the attainment I have received, I accept it all for myself. My motives become corrupted and sometimes I don’t even realize this: “I am not saying that I am a great teacher, but people do ask for me…”, “students say that only I should do that service…”, “people wait for my workshops and lectures…”, “I am actually very detached, but others make me loving to them…” This is called suffering from ‘guru consciousness‘.

There is only one Guru, the Satguru, through whom I received the knowledge, and the power. It is also His service that I am doing and yet, asks the Father, “Were the souls looking at you or the Father? They like ‘your’ knowledge, they like ‘your way’ of serving but where did the Father go?” Complete renunciation means that I renounce even the ‘I’ and ‘mine’; I am no longer visible, only the Father is visible. My duty is to forge a relationship between souls and their Father, not with myself. This is what Father Brahma did. He was a complete renunciate or a complete ‘beggar’. Not only was there renunciation of the body and of lokik relationships, but the great and very first renunciation, was that of surrendering his mind and intellect. This means that in every action, at every moment, there was only the awareness of the Father and His shrimat in his mind and intellect. He constantly considered himself to be an instrument and was detached and loving in every action.

And so Baba says, “Follow Father Brahma. In order to become completely pure, you have to become a complete beggar. Forget all your relationships, including your body, and remember Me, for only then will you become pure.”