senses. How strange! You cannot be a slave of the flesh and at the same time be the master of the universe. Let all the great lecturers of the age come; let Christ or God Himself come and lecture; but lectures from others will be of no avail, unless you are prepared to lecture yourself. Vedanta wants you to rise above the little self, the small ego, through intense work. Vedanta requires you to work for its own sake, Work in Vedanta always means harmony with the Real Self and atonement with the universe. What is work? Intense work, according to Vedanta, is rest. All true work is rest. Keeping the body in active struggle and the mind in rest and love, means salvation from sin and sorrow right here in this life. Let the inner soul be at rest and the body be continually at work. The body, subject to the laws of dynamics, being in action, and the inner self always at statical rest. Let your work be impersonal; let your work be free from the taint of selfish egotism; let your work be just like the work of the stars and the sun; let your work be like that of the moon. Then alone can your worh be successful. Let the body and mind be continuously at work to such a degree that the labour may not be felt at all. Sacrifice your little self; forget it in the performance of your work, and success must be yours. It cannot be otherwise. The desire for success must die in your work before achieving success. Work in the spirit of an unaffected witness, free from all entanglement. Remain immune. Wherever you may be, work in the position of a giver and never in the position of a beggar, so that your work may be universal work, and not personal in the least. Incessant woric, incessant labour is the greatest ‘yoga’ for a man of the world. You are the greatest worker
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