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B: The person dying young may soon be reborn and have
in that life better chances of striving towards realisation than
the other person living long in this life.
A visitor asked, “When it is said that we must renounce
all activities, is it meant that we should reduce our activities
as much as possible?”
B: By giving up activities is meant giving up attachment
to activities or the fruits thereof, giving up the notion ‘I am the
doer’. The activities for going through which this body has
come, will have to be gone through. There is no question of
giving up such activities, whatever one may or may not like.
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Bhagavan suddenly seems to have felt like visiting
Skandasramam, where for about a week now repairs are being
done; and so without notice to anybody, after the midday meal,
Bhagavan, on his usual after-lunch stroll, wended his way towards
Skandasramam, followed by attendant Rangaswami. Few knew
of this till about 3-30 p.m. But after 3-30 the news gradually
spread and almost all the devotees went up to Skandasramam
and found Bhagavan seated on the terraced platform in front,
which overlooks the temple and town. We found Bhagavan in
very good spirits and relating various events and incidents that
happened during his stay there previous to his coming to
Ramanasramam. Bhagavan had a mind even to continue stopping
there and to spend the night there. But all the devotees had
thronged there and none looked likely to move till Bhagavan
moved. So at about 5-30 p.m. Bhagavan started, looked at the
various parts of the Asramam, telling us where he used to sleep,
where he used to sit, and where mother sat, where they cooked,
where the old tap was, and so on, and then got down by the steps.
On the way he visited Virupakshi Cave and explained about his
life there also. Here he pointed out the UôPjÕl ©s}Vôo
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