Now if there is any one
amongst you who really wants to study this science, he will have to start with
that sort of determination, the same as nay even more than that which he puts
into any business of life.
And what an about of
attention does business require, and what a rigorous taskmaster it is. Even if
the father the mother the wife or the child dies business cannot stop! Even if
the heart is breaking we still have to go to our place of business when every
hour of work is a pang. That is business and we think that it is just that it
is right.
This science calls for more
application than any business can ever require. Many men can succeed in business;
very few in this. Because so much depends upon the particular constitution of
the person studying it. As in business all may not make a fortune but everyone
can make something, so in the study of this science each one can get a glimpse
which will convince hi, or its truth and of the fact that there have been men
who realized it fully.
Even the least thing well
done brings marvelous results; therefore let everyone do what little he can. If
the fisherman thinks that he is the Spirit, he will be a better fisherman; if
the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer
thinks that he is the spirit he will be a better lawyer and so on.
Advance like a hero. Don’t
be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last with its happiness
and misery? When you have got the human body then rouse the Atman within and
say I have reached the state of fearlessness!.... and then as long as the body
endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness.” Thou art that”,
“arise, awake , and stop not till the goal is reached!”
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