If one has good savings, is it okay to take voluntary retirement?

[Shri Balaji came from Bangalore exclusively to have Satsanga with Shri Datta Swami and other Devotees. Shri Balaji asked this question.]

[If one has good savings, is it ok to take voluntary retirement? This gives the opportunity to practically propagate Spiritual Knowledge full-time as Karma Samnyasa. But the other way is to work hard as before even after needed savings but give Karma Phala Tyaga fully to Sadguru.]

Swami Replied: I recommend the second option because you will be having the touch with Spiritual knowledge as well as touch with worldly knowledge. Even God needed a change from His continuous monistic state as said in the Veda (Ekākī na ramate). The soul also needs touch with a different subject now and then like a pickle tasted in the intervals while eating sweets. The pickle gives a change, and after the change, freshness is created to attach to the main subject with double vigor. It is like a culvert which stops the flow of water for some time diverting the flow from dynamic to static state. The water crosses the culvert by accumulation and flows with double speed. Sage Naarada told that deviation from  devotion into worldly subjects creates a lot of anxiety and tension that increase the speed of more attachment to God (Tad vismaraṇe paramaṃ vyākulateti). Only in the climax state of devotion, continuity of devotion does not bring the desire for any change. We have not yet become the climax devotees to be in the devotion to God continuously without desire for any change. Hence, the primary state of devotion needs a change like eating sweets continuously while tasting pickle in intervals.

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