Author: Vasundhara

If we were really unattached, we should escape all the pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment.

We should not hate anyone. This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer. The world is a grand moral gymnasium wherein we have all to take exercises so as to become stronger and stronger spiritually.

Life is good or evil according to the state of mind in which we look at it, it is neither by itself. Fire, by itself, is neither good nor evil. When it keeps us warm we say, “How beautiful is fire!” When it burns our fingers, we blame it. Still, in itself it is neither good nor bad. According as we use it, it produces in us the feeling of good or bad; so also is this world.

Work for work’s sake. There are some who work for work’s sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven. They work just because good will come of it. If a person works without any selfish motive in view, does he not gain anything? Yes, he gains the highest.

Be unselfish. What this means is – that you are part of me, and I of you… in hurting you I hurt myself, and in helping you I help myself. We cannot leave one of our fellow beings without helping him, that in this good consists my good.