What decades of close proximity with Krishna could not bring about, Uddhava was able to achieve, by seeking instruction from Krishna and Krishna giving the instruction. Why? Every word is unlike food gulped by the stomach. A word strikes the eardrum, and after the eardrum, it is all ideas, knowledge. What is idea and what is knowledge? It’s very difficult to explain, because when it comes to you in the form of sound, it is energy. But before becoming energy, it was a kind of a subtle vibration of consciousness and that is not like a physical or a chemical process. So we cannot explain what is this knowledge process, but nevertheless we experience it.

I would like to declare and pronounce one point; to take up or enter into sannyāsa is to have a life of far greater inclusion, expansion and elevation. It is not to deny. It is on the other hand to imbibe a far greater dimension. Whether it is with regard to sensory life, oral life, mental life, intellectual life, in terms of members, if I were a householder, I would have been living with three or four or five people, but here I am living with dozens of people, and, any time anybody can come. In household the membership is limited. Then the mind has to constantly think about and imbibe far, far, far, far greater dimensions. In the household it is selfishness that rules, but here it is selflessness that rules. In selfishness, what happens; you live with a small number of family members, but here, because of our selflessness, we live with a large number of people. You tell me whether it is a denial or an expansion. This is what I want to convey.