As for quietude and work, quietude is the proper basis for work — not restlessness. You speak as if quietude and being alive and working were not compatible! […]
It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected […]
In work too there is an austerity. It consists in not having any preferences and in doing everything one does with interest. For one who wants to grow […]
…to quiet the mind and get the spiritual experience it is necessary first to purify and prepare the nature. This sometimes takes many years.Work done with the […]
When things go wrong, people blame the Force, but it is not the Force that is responsible: it is ambition, egoism, ignorance and the weakness of the vessel. […]
There is no opposition between work and sadhana. Work itself done in the right spirit is sadhana. Meditation is not the only means of sadhana. Work is one […]