| ivity should be avoided by all means. Activity always | | | | Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you |
| means resistance. Resist all evils, mental and physical; | | | | have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will |
| and when you have succeeded in resisting, then will | | | | renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfil |
| calmness come. It is very easy to say, "Hate nobody, | | | | your desire for power and everything else, and after |
| resist not evil," but we know what that kind of thing | | | | you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when |
| generally means in practice. When the eyes of society | | | | you will know that they are all very little things; but until |
| are turned towards us, we may make a show of non | | | | you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed |
| - resistance, but in our hearts it is canker all the time. | | | | through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to |
| We feel the utter want of the calm of non - | | | | the state of calmness, serenity, and self - surrender. |
| resistance; we feel that it would be better for us to | | | | These ideas of serenity and renunciation have been |
| resist. If you desire wealth, and know at the same time | | | | preached for thousands of years; everybody has |
| that the whole world regards him who aims at wealth | | | | heard of them from childhood, and yet we see very |
| as a very wicked man, you, perhaps, will not dare to | | | | few in the world who have really reached that stage. I |
| plunge into the struggle for wealth, yet your mind will | | | | do not know if I have seen twenty persons in my life |
| be running day and night after money. This is hypocrisy | | | | who are really calm and non - resisting, and I have |
| and will serve no purpose. | | | | travelled over half the world. |