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If you would like to teach kids how to let go to usher the divinity in them, here’s how you can attempt it. Please suggest any important shlokas I should be including as I compile these notes which can be a blueprint of life.
Summary (Provided by a reader, thank you!!)
🕉️ Surrender isn’t running away. It’s choosing trust over control, humility over pride, and releasing fear, ego, and whatever you’re clinging to.
🕉️ Do your work with sincerity, but don’t become attached to your likes or the outcome.
🕉️ Doing good isn’t for credit, offer it freely.
🕉️ You don’t need monk robes to be spiritual; you need awareness.
🕉️ Sattvic action is duty without selfish desire, done with clarity and compassion. Cultivate it for inner peace.
🕉️ Tyaga (letting go) and Sannyasa (inner release) can live quietly in everyday life.
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ब्रह्म सत्यं जगन्मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मैव नापरः।
अनेन वेद्यं सच्छास्त्रमिति वेदान्तडिण्डिमः॥
Brahman alone is real; the universe is mithya – neither fully real nor unreal, but an appearance. The individual self (jiva) is none other than Brahman itself, not separate or different. This is the true teaching of the scriptures, as revealed by Vedanta. ~ Verse 20 from Brahma Jnānavali Māla
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