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In childhood, people are interested in play, when they are in youth, they are interested in women; when they grow old they are struck with worry. Nobody has interest in the Supreme.
Whether it is Wordsworth or Adi Shankaracharya or any other saint, he does not preach total renunciation of the world. In fact, in the Bhagavad-GitaLord Krishna hassaidthathe(God)hasvoluntarilytaken up the task of creating and sustaining the whole universe. Being a fulfilled soul he would not have undertaken the mighty