Text 48] The Movements of the Living Entities 1365
should try to associate with a liberated person, and then the problems of
life, namely birth and death, can be solved.

While discharging devotional service in full Krsna consciousness, one
should not be miserly. He should not unnecessarily show that he has
renounced this world. Actually, renunciation is not possible. If one
renounces his palatial building and goes to a forest, there is actually no
renunciation because the palatial building is the property of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead and the forest is also the property of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. If he changes from one property to another, that
does not mean that he renounces; he was never the proprietor of either the
palace or the forest. Renunciation necessitates renouncing the false under-
standing that one can lord it over material nature. When one renounces this
false attitude and renounces the puffed up position that he is also God, that
is real renunciation. Otherwise, there is no meaning of renunciation. Ripa
Gosvami advises that if one renounces anything which could be applied in
the service of the Lord and does not use it for that purpose, that is called
phalgu-vairagya, insufficient or false renunciation. Everything belongs to
the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore everything can be engaged
in the service of the Lord; nothing should be used for one’s sense gratifi-
cation. That is real renunciation. Nor should one unnecessarily increase
the necessities of the body. We should be satisfied with whatever is offered
and supplied by Krsna without much personal endeavor. We should spend
our time executing devotional service in Krsna consciousness. That is the
solution of the problem of life and death.

TEXT 48
UGTA FEN TAT TTTT |
Wada ats WT BIT lvl!
samyag-darsanaya buddhya
yoga-vairagya-yuktaya
maya-viracite loke
caren nyasya kalevaram
samyak-darsanaya—endowed with right vision; buddh ya—through reason;
yoga—by devotional service; vairagya—by detachment; yuktaya—
strengthened; maya-viracite—arranged by maya; loke—to this world; caret—
one should move about; nyasya—relegating; kalevaram—the body.
