RENUNCIATION

Our renunciation must obviously be an inward renunciation; especially and above all, a renunciation of attachment and the craving of desire in the senses and the heart, of self-will in the thought and action and of egoism in the centre of the consciousness. For these things are the three knots by which we are bound to our lower nature and if we can renounce these utterly, there is nothing else that can bind us.
SRI AUROBINDO

All renunciation is for a greater joy yet ungrasped. Some renounce for the joy of duty done, some for the joy of peace, some for the joy of God and some for the joy of self-torture, but renounce rather as a passage to the freedom and untroubled rapture beyond.
SRI AUROBINDO

Renunciation of Desires
The essential condition for realisation.

Tectona grandis
Teak, Indian oak, Saga, Saigun
Mildly fragrant tiny cream white flowers with six rounded lobes and six exserted stamens; borne in large airy cloudlike panicles. A large ornamental tree with large stiff leaves.

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Renunciation of Vital Desires
It has understood the futility of desires.

Angelonia salicariifolia
Small fragrant purple bilabiate flowers with two upper and three lower recurved rounded lobes; borne in terminal racemes. A perennial herb with viscid aromatic leaves.

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Integral Renunciation of the Vital Desires
An indispensable condition for true progress.

Angelonia salicariifolia
Small fragrant white bilabiate flowers with two upper and three lower recurved rounded lobes; borne in terminal racemes. A perennial herb with viscid aromatic leaves.

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Renunciation of Emotional Desires
Indispensable for transformation.

Angelonia salicariifolia
Small fragrant bilabiate flowers with two upper and three lower recurved rounded lobes; white with purple markings; borne in terminal racemes. A perennial herb with viscid aromatic leaves.

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