Monkeys live on trees in jungles and they don’t have fixed habitat. They remain naked surviving to bone chilling or scorching heat seasons and eat only leaves and fruits. These seem to be qualifications of great sage who has forsaken the world for spiritual elevation. But monkeys fight badly for finding mating partner and they have relationship with multiple of them.
Monkey renunciation term is used for the people who focus on external facade of renunciation without cultivating their hearts to be free from malice, lust and envy. When testing time comes, these people fall victim to temptations like hollowed out tree falling on slight wind force. A qualified renunciate is one who is engaged in the service of the Lord, only for His pleasure, all the time without any personal motives, may that person be a householder seeming to be engaged in worldly duties or monk in a monastery. External manifestation of renunciation is just a part of it for those who are already in renounced order of life to remind oneself of duties of this order and others for taking advantage of these people.
Off-course nothing is impossible for Lord, by the grace of the Lord even a monkey can be renounced. Lord showed this with an example of Hanuman. The most honored devotee of the Lord in the form of monkey. He was not only a renounced celibate but his sole pleasure was in the pleasure of the Lord. By blessings of Hanuman and following his footsteps even we can come out of our monkey renunciation tendencies and develop a real substance.
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