Course III - Teaching 15: Renunciation in the World

Although the Son makes of Renunciation a utopian perfection state, he never can attain a full realized life.
Also this false position leads to reject Renunciation as an unrealizable state for those souls that in the world dedicate most of their time and energy to the mere fact of being able to earn a living.
This is a wrong position. Renunciation is the law of all, otherwise that which one understands as Renunciation is not such.
Renunciation is sway and realization not only of certain souls but also of all men, all mankind, as society and as individuals in all.
Son’s vocation is a define state of life; the circumstance by which he lives in the world does not mean a license that exempts him of the asceticism of his spiritual life, but on the contrary, a fact that obliges him to maintain an especial vigilance and a continuous control of himself and of forces around him.
The Son cannot reach plenitude if he does not achieve totally the Renunciation according to his way of living. Nothing impedes him the inner consecration of his soul and the integral fulfillment of his vocation through concrete and consequent attitudes.
The Son misplaced in the world, his feeling of insecurity in many cases, and even of certain failure, comes from the resistance to his vocation of Renunciation and his consequent realization.
The unity of the family cell is fundamental for Renunciation to the world.
Renunciation is not only an inner state of the soul but also a concrete attitude in front of needs and diverse situations of daily living. Then the family cell is a point of concentration and expansion. It must become a steadily consolidated unity to get it. A vocational affinity of husband and wife is foundation of realization in the Sons and point of expansion in their message of Renunciation. The Son can not only attain the full Renunciation, but also his duty is to achieve it by simple, human and ordinary means given by life and his spontaneous standing in society. He must take this duty as his true mission, since he must become proof and evidence of his spiritual message.
Each Son must feel totally responsible for the fulfillment of his vocation of Renunciation as mission before the world, and his life must be a mirror of his doctrine, since the ascetic Renunciation is the only possible asceticism in any state of life and the only mean of accessible realization to all human beings: true universal way. This universality must be demonstrated by a consequent realization of the Sons, who live it in every social area through different individual vocations and by transcending every type of particular problems. This diversity of particular hues in the individual realization of the Sons becomes the true Renunciation that Cafh transmits to the world.
So the Son must understand the magnitude of his individual responsibility and the seriousness of his spiritual duty of achieving effectively that Renunciation through his efficient work, consecrated family, understanding, sacrifice and consequent life.
The Son that lives in the world must feel that he and their dear ones are the living teaching of Cafh, and he must not be deceived by only living intellectually these concepts. A word that is not life becomes destructive and source of discouragement and ruin to the world. But only one concept integrally achieved is light and liberation to the souls.
The continuous concern of the Son must be that all his life reflects, even in its tiniest and insignificant details, his own vocation of Renunciation. His home, and especially the way to satisfy his needs, must be clear and definitive expression of the Teaching that he transmit to the world as the living message.