For understanding the Divine, mere yearning to know and the study of Vedas are not sufficient. The primary qualification you must acquire is Viveka: discrimination between the transitory and the eternal. Atma alone suffers no change; it alone is Timeless Truth. You must gain this unshakable conviction and be established in it. The second qualification is renunciation of the desire to enjoy the fruits of one's actions, here and hereafter. This is called Vairagya (Non-Attachment). Non-attachment does not mean giving up hearth and home, spouse and children and taking refuge in forests. It only involves the awareness of the world as transitory and, as a consequence of this awareness, discarding the feelings of "I" and "mine."
- BABA
