| granules of that flour had fallen on the floor; and when I | | | | men take everything for themselves, and fathers and |
| rolled my body on them, half of it became golden, as | | | | mothers and wives and children go to the wall. That |
| you see. Since then I have been travelling all over the | | | | should never and nowhere be the ideal of the |
| world, hoping to find another sacrifice like that, but | | | | householder. |
| nowhere have I found one; nowhere else has the | | | | Now you see what Karma-Yoga means; even at the |
| other half of my body been turned into gold. That is | | | | point of death to help any one, without asking |
| why I say this is no sacrifice." | | | | questions. Be cheated millions of times and never ask |
| This idea of charity is going out of India; great men are | | | | a question, and never think of what you are doing. |
| becoming fewer and fewer. When I was first learning | | | | Never vaunt of your gifts to the poor or expect their |
| English, I read an English story book in which there was | | | | gratitude, but rather be grateful to them for giving you |
| a story about a dutiful boy who had gone out to work | | | | the occasion of practising charity to them. Thus it is |
| and had given some of his money to his old mother, | | | | plain that to be an ideal householder is a much more |
| and this was praised in three or four pages. What was | | | | difficult task than to be an ideal Sannyasin; the true life |
| that? No Hindu boy can ever understand the moral of | | | | of work is indeed as hard as, if not harder than, the |
| that story. Now I understand it when I hear the | | | | equally true life of renunciation. |
| Western idea -- every man for himself. And some | | | | |