Discriminate within yourself between the real and the unreal. Have you not read the Vedanta? Even when you sleep, keep the sword of discrimination at the head of your bed, so that covetousness cannot approach you even in dream. Practicing such strength, renunciation will gradually come, and then you will see the portals of heaven are wide open to you.
Each soul is potentially divine. Religion is to manifest
this Divinity within, by controlling nature, external
and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or
psychic control, or philosophy
and be free. This is the whole of religion.