Renouncement

Renouncement, though superficially mean the giving up of attachment to close relatives/friends and material things, it has greater depth, and is a very difficult state to attain. It also mean to give up the attachment to our achievements in academics, work life and the inherent calibre of multi-tasking, discipline, presence of mind, our skill sets that we have accumulated, over a period of time, starting from childhood. These achievements are intangible, unlike our material possessions or relatives around us, but have a greater grip on us. 

When we are given an opportunity to exhibit the talents we possess, we will not even give a thought about this. We will work, and then think in terms of Bhagavat Gita, "Do your duty and do not expect the reward", and keep going.

On the contrary, if we are put in a situation, where we are suppressed and have no platform to showcase our potential, then we feel very miserable and can actually feel the burden of the intellect. All the philosophy that we have understood through the intellect of ours fail to make us understand the situation, and we will be lost in self-pity, and get frustrated and raged over people who have misused us for their personal comfort. We will bang all the doors of opportunities, feel even wretched when those doors are shut, and we are actually treated like a beggar, asking for a chance to prove over and again. This intellectual burden has to be renounced to attain everlasting bliss and peace.

The only way to achieve this is think over and again the words of Sri Ramana Maharshi, as stated below.

"Intellect helps only in making one sink the intellect in the ego and the ego in the Self. After realization, all intellectual loads are thrown overboard as flotsam. Whose is the intellect? It is man’s. Intellect is only an instrument. To reach the Self it must vanish, must vanish.

Pride of learning and the desire for appreciation are condemned, not the learning itself. Education and learning which lead to the search for Truth and humility are good”

One has to ponder over these words again and again till such time one's intellect and ego are dissolved in the Self, which finally illumines itself in its fullest glory.