KNOWLEDGE
SHEET BY SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR
POSTED
ON: SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2026
Austerity
Austerity
is often mistaken to be poverty, self-denial. It is neither. Austerity comes
out of maturity. It is a sign of social health. Often people who practice
austerity are resentful of richness. This is a very pitiable state. Such
austerity is not born out of maturity but out of compulsion. The true austerity
has tolerance for richness and is never resentful.
In
fact, one who is mature will have pity for one who is not austere. Austerity is
not against celebration and just vanity is not celebration. Celebration dawns
in the spirit. Only one who is rich in spirit can practice austerity. One may
be rich materially but if he is poor in spirit he can neither celebrate nor
evolve. Poverty of spirit is vanity. Austerity brings freedom from the pride of
vanity. But taking pride in austerity is again a vanity !
Austerity
comes out of abundance, and austerity brings abundance. If you feel a lack in
any area of life, immediately start austerity. Austerity not only brings
freedom but nurtures sharing and caring.
II JAI GURUDEV II
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