C.      Renunciation of Indolence and Desire in Connection with the Worship of Celestial

There is God's instruction to offer worship to the celestial s, who are worthy of being worshipped, during the time appointed for such worship, according to the scriptures as well as tradition. Regarding the carrying out of God's instruction as one's supreme duty, such worship should be offered to a celestial with enthusiasm, according to the prescribed rules, without expression of any desire for the satisfaction of any worldly interest.

With the object of such worship, words implying worldly interest should not be written on the cash-book, and other books of account. For instance, in Marwari society there is a custom on the New Year or Diwali day, after the worship of Goddess Laksmi, to write many words implying worldly desire, such as. "Goddess Laksmi will bring profit", The store will be kept full", Prosperity and success will be brought", Under the protection of Goddess kali", Under the protection of Goddess Ganga", etc., There should be substituted by unselfish, auspicious words, such as, "Sri Laksminarayana, in the form of Bliss, is present everywhere", or "Goddess Laksmi has been worshipped with great delight and enthusiasm". Similarly, while writing the daily cash-book, this procedure should be followed.

(D)    Renunciation of Indolence and Desire in the Service of Parents and other Elders.

It is man's supreme duty to render daily services, in all possible ways, to parents, the preceptor, and other persons who are one's superior in Varna, Asram, age, qualifications, or in whatever other respect it may be and daily offer them obeisance. Cultivating this thought in the mind, and abandoning all idleness, disinterested, enthusiastic, and according to God's behests, services should be rendered to them.

(E)     Renunciation of Indolence and Desire in the Performance of Sacrifices, Charities, Austerities and other Auspicious Deeds.

Sacrifices, e.g., the daily obligatory five Great Sacrifices (The five Great Sacrifices are as follows:- (a) Sacrifice to Gods (performance eof Agnihotra, etc.,) (b) Sacrifice to Rsis (study of the Vedas, performance eof Sandhya and Japa of Gayatri, etc.,) (c) Sacrifice to the Manes (performance of Tarpana, Sradha etc.,) (d) Sacrifice to Men (entertainment of guests), (e) Sacrifice to all created beings (performance of Balivaisvadeva). and other occasional sacrifices, should be performed. Through gifts of food, clothing, learning, medicine, and wealth, etc., attempt should be made, according to one's capacity, to make all creatures happy, through mind, speech and the body. Similarly, all forms of bodily suffering should be undergone for the preservation of Dharma. These duties enjoined by the scriptures should be performed, with faith and enthusiasm, according to God's behests, regarding them as supremely important, wholly renouncing the desire for all kinds of enjoyment of this world and the next.

(F)     Renunciation of Indolence and Desire in the Performance of Proper Work for Maintenance of the Family through earning of Livelihood.

It is God's injunction that the family should be maintained through service to the world by performing duties laid down in the scriptures for the respective Varnas and Asramas, even as agriculture, cattle-breeding and trades have been laid down as the works of livelihood for the Vaisya. Therefore, regarding them as duties, treating profit and loss as equal, and renouncing all forms of desire such works should be enthusiastically performed. (Works performed by a person in the above spirit, being freed from agreed, cannot be tainted by evil in anyway, for in works of livelihood greed is the particular cause which leads one to the commission of sin. therefore, just as Vaisyas have been advised at length to give up evil practices connected with trade in the footnote of the Hindi rendering of Chapter XVIII verse 44 of the edition of the Gita published by the Gita Press, Gorakhpur, even so men should renounce all forms of evil connected with their respective duties as laid down by the Varnasrama system, regarding them as injunctions of God.)

(G)    Renunciation of Indolence and Desire in Work for Preservation of the Body

In works for preservation of the body, according to the scriptures, e.g., pertaining to food, dress, medicines etc., and the desire for enjoyment should be renounced. They should be performed, according to the needs of the occasion, only with the object of God-realization, regarding pleasure and pain, profit and loss, life and death as equal.

Together with the four types of renunciation stated above, when according to this fifth type of renunciation, all evils and all forms of desire are destroyed, and there remains only the one strong desire for God-realization, it should be regarded as the mark of the person, who has attained ripeness in the first stage of Wisdom.