About 5000 years old concepts of renunciation and detachment are still hard to understand and yet survive in our philosophy of life.
The principal cause is that human mind gives too much importance to birth and death and forgets the value of means of achieving self-gratification during one span of life, that too, at the cost of system of other levels of existence (other living-beings and environment).
Variety of religious paths that have come into place have avoided to dwell on these concepts as difficult to practice.
The net result is, the world has been becoming more and more threatened with growth of human civilization.
Prince Siddharth renounced the world and then came back enlightened to it as Lord Budha advising us the path called: middle path.
Lord Krishna clarified in the Bhagwad Geeta that 'desire for only self-growth and happiness is the whole cause of misery in this world'. It means that individualistic growth at the cost of other beings and environment around is dangerous.
The conclusion is thus one has to renounce undue desires for ego-fulfilment in this world and observe own deeds impartially by being detached from the fruit or acquisitions.
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