Renunciation and Leading a Family Life

When asked about renunciation and leading a family life, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji, explains that the important point to answer is what we are renouncing and why. There are many people who have renounced families and pleasures of life and are still miserable. The idea of renunciation is to take us forward in our spirituality. The real renunciation is a renunciation to the attachment to getting what one needs fulfilled by someone or something outside his or her self. With renunciation you are complete in yourself and you don’t have expectations from others to complete you. You can love so much more purely and whole heartedly and be the strength that your family needs.