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UNSELFISH WORK IS TRUE RENUNCIATION
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not
for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work
on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined
will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not
become so
degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind
the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not
bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret
pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.
The ordinary Sannyâsin gives up the world, goes out, and
thinks of God. The real Sannyâsin lives in the world, but is not of it. Those
who deny themselves, live in the forest, and chew the cud of unsatisfied
desires are not true renouncers. Live in the midst of the battle of life.
Anyone can keep calm in a cave or when asleep. Stand in the whirl and madness
of action and reach the Centre. If you have found the Centre, you cannot be
moved.