Renunciation

Opening Quote

“Real renunciation is not the act of leaving the world—
It is the realization that there was never anything to leave.”

Renunciation

Today, I am once again searching for the definition of the word –renunciation.—

wondering: will it appear today in the same form as it did in my childhood?

Will it come in the same garb as it did ten years ago?

Is it the same today?

No, it doesn’t.

Like people, words travel.

Meanings evolve.

We are all so deeply intertwined that our inner journeys pass through each other.

And today, the journey of renunciation stops at a strange and beautiful place—

Not with a comma,

But with a mark of release.

The sound and form of renunciation”

—as a word, as a feeling—may have merged.

But not the essence.

Not the being.

Today

Today, renunciation arrives and rests.
It does not land with weight—
It does not pause with hesitation—
It arrives as freedom.
Not a comma, but a completion.

The form and feeling of renunciation,
As a word and emotion,
May have dissolved,
But not its essence.
Its existence remains.
Subtle, powerful, quiet.

Today, the word renunciation speaks

“I am a true traveler; renunciation is my clothing.

I wore the clothes of renunciation only to meet the guest named Renunciation.

But when I looked—I am that renunciation—

I realized that I was only meeting myself.

Renunciation can never renounce itself—

It is already beyond ownership.

I have only walked, wandered, stopped,

In its own nature.

My unconsciousness has evolved into consciousness.

Today I have stopped, not at the comma but at the full stop—

Which is the stop of liberation, but not of the journey.

I am born of sadness and detachment—

And I grow up in silence.

I am renunciation—

I hold nothing; I leave nothing.

Because my very nature is that of a sannyasi, who is only a traveler.

I said,

I said,

It seems that this is not your story, but my story.

This is not your journey, but my journey.

This is not you; this is me.
This renunciation created such a bond that I became a renunciant, and renunciation took on my form and departed.
This transformation of ours revealed a new world in a new dimension

Closing Quote

“Renunciation is not in losing what you love,
But in loving without needing to possess.”