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The fifth stage is to completely abandon laziness and the desire for ease regarding all of one's obligations.
Devotion to God, worship of the gods, service to parents and elders, offerings, charity, and ascetic practices. Furthermore, earning a living appropriately for one's social status and stage of life, and performing bodily functions such as eating and drinking. All of these are included in a person's obligations.
Regarding these obligations, it is necessary to abandon laziness and relinquish all forms of desire. This is the fifth stage of renunciation.
The sixth stage is to completely abandon the sense of "ownership" and attachment to all worldly objects and activities.
Wealth, houses, clothing, and other worldly possessions.
Wives, children, friends, and other people who are close and important to you.
Honor, fame, reputation, and all kinds of pleasures in this world and the next.
These are temporary and perishable things that should be considered as impermanent.
Therefore, we should not have a sense of ownership or attachment to them, and think "this is mine."
Similarly, if you cultivate a pure and unmixed love that is directed only to God, then regarding actions performed through the heart, words, and body, as well as even the physical body itself, you should cease to possess a sense of ownership or attachment.
This is the sixth stage of abandonment.
People who have reached this sixth stage cultivate detachment from all objects in this world. And only God, who is the ultimate love itself, becomes the object of their attachment.
Therefore, to listen to, tell, and contemplate in their hearts the pure sacred story of divine grace, glory, and mystery. To constantly engage in worship and meditation. While living in secluded places, to deeply consider the hidden meanings of scriptures. These are the only activities that they prefer.
They do not prefer to live among people who are focused on sensory pleasures. Also, they do not want to spend even a moment of their valuable time on frivolous play, luxury, carelessness, speaking ill of others, sensual enjoyment, and idle chatter.
And they fulfill all their duties selflessly, for God alone, and always keep their hearts dwelling in the name and image of God.
The above six stages of renunciation constitute the practice of Karma Yoga. By continuing this discipline, the seeker realizes the truth about God through divine grace and attains the immortal supreme state.