There is a false understanding about renunciation: that people must give away things which they need in order to promote spiritual labor and carry on useful spiritual activities. The disciples of the world need money; they need health, personality, individuality, lands, and machinery to render their sacrificial service efficiently in an advancing, sophisticated world. But they must have all this without identification, vanity, pride, and the sense of separatism.
If it is necessary for the work, a disciple must have the best car, even an airplane, and institutions equipped with all the latest technology. The spiritual work of the human soul is in a very retarded state. We are living in a new environment, and we need new methods to overcome the forces of darkness. They certainly have sophisticated material sources to carry on their destructive work.
-Torkom Saraydarian
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