This World is in dire need of heroes and leaders who can help and lead people in the right path and show them the way to Eternal Bliss and Immortality.
Nachiketas, the hero of heroes, a boy of 10 or 12 years, who had inexhaustible spiritual strength was born of wisdom of the higher Self.
When Sage Yajnavalkya offered all his property and estate to his Maitreyi, what did she say? “My venerable Lord! Even if I have the wealth of the whole world, how can I attain Immortality? Give me that inexhaustible spiritual wealth which can ever make me rich and full at heart – that wealth of wisdom and immortality of the Soul. I am longing for that wealth and that wealth alone.”
Tyaga is Renunciation of the worldly connection and from its objects. The real Tyaga – Renunciation consists in the renunciation of the Ego – Ahankara.
Those leaders who are afraid of renunciation, who have not understood the glory of Sannyasa, renunciation and Nivritti Marga, who cannot lead the life of Nivritti Marga, who spend their lives enjoying worldly pleasures until the end of their life, who are afraid of wearing the orange coloured robe, they say “We are mental Sannyasins. We have given colouring to our hearts” – These are all timid people, regardless of their worldly work of deluding glory they might have accomplished. They can never reach the level of persons like Sri Sankara, Yajnavalkya or Dattatreya – the great spiritual lions.
Poor worldlings! One would think that they have taken a contract with Brahma that they will procreate children and take care of this world!
Humanity wants happiness. Humanity shuns pain. Humanity makes various sorts of efforts (Pravritti) to get happiness from objects of this world and therefore entangle themselves in the meshes and snares of Maya. As these objects are perishable, finite and conditioned in time, space and causation, each person fails to get the desired happiness from those objects. This dualistic world is Apurna – imperfect. There is uncertainty of life.
There is not an iota of happiness in objects as they are Jada – insentient. Just as a dog, sucking a dry bone in the streets, imagines that the blood comes from the dry bone, whereas in reality it oozes from its own lacerated palate, so also worldly minded persons imagine that the happiness they enjoy comes from the objects.
There is a mental uneasiness, dissatisfaction, discontentment and restlessness even in multi-billionaires and kings. Some kind of sorrow, misery or pain is always present even when you are in the height of enjoyment of worldly pleasures. The mind is constituted that the rhythm of pleasure and pain is kept up like the rhythm of the systole and diastole (contraction and dilation) of the heart. The happiness will pass away soon. This apprehension adds a dust of pain even when you are in the maximum enjoyment of sensual pleasures.
One need never despair. People will ask: “How can the world go on, if all the people of the world retire to forests and lead the life of renunciation?” Even if all leaders are taken out of the world now, the world will run on smoothly, probably more smoothly. Even if all the people retire into the forest, the world will go on. The omnipotent Lord will create leaders to lead the world and continue its normal existence.