Develop a gigantic will

Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right? The will is stronger than anything else. But saying, “I can,” won’t do. Get up and put your shoulders to the wheel — how long is this life for?

 

As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind.

Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They, too, come into existence, decay and die. If you like to be born and to die like them, you are at liberty to do so. Show me by your actions that your reading the Vedanta has been fruitful of the highest good. Go and tell all, “In every one of you lies that Eternal Power,” and try to wake It up.

 

Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result. If you are brave enough, in six months you will be a perfect Yogi. But those who take up just a bit of it and alittle of everything else make no progress.

 

To those who are full of Tamas, ignorant and dull — those whose minds never get fixed on any idea, who only crave for something to amuse them — religion and philosophy are simply objects of entertainment. These are the un-persevering. They hear atalk, think it very nice, and then go home and forget all about it. To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul, “at my will, mountains will crumble.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.

 

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