to the world when to yourself you are no worker. In order that you may have success, in order that you may prosper, you must, through your acts, by your own everyday life, burn your own body and muscles; cremate them in the fire of use. You must use them; you must consume your body and mind, put them in a burning state; crucify your body and mind; work, work; and then will light shine through you. Vedanta wants you to be at rest in your inner Self. 0 happy workers! Success must seek you when you cease to seek success. It is our selfish restlessness that spoils all our work. If you deserve, you need not desire; the objects of desire will be brought to you, will come to you. If you make yourself worthy, help must come to you. The very moment that you rise above the desire, the object of desire seeks you, and the very moment that you assume the craving, seeking, asking, begging attitude, you will be repulsed; you will not have, you cannot have the object of desire. Rise above the thing, stand above it, and it will seek you. That is the Law. Realize the Heaven within you, and all at once all the desires are fulfilled, all the misery and suffering is put an end to. Acts speak louder than words. Let your work be for work’s sake. Renounce your desires, rise above them and you find double peace, immediate rest and eventual fruition of desires. Remember that your desires will be realized only when you rise above them into supreme reality. When you consciously or unconsciously lose yourself in the Divinity, then and then only will the time be ripe for the fulfilment of desires. In order that your work should be successful, you should not mind the end, you should not care for the consequences or the result. Let the means and the end be brought together, let
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