So, on and on in our pursuit of the Eternal. Let the
dead bury their dead.' Let us forget the world, and
with one pointed devotion meditate on the Eternal
Lord. That is the only life worth living. We
unaware that to abide in the Eternal is not easy, We
know that it is extremely difficult to deny the present
life. What are we to do? We must practise daily. Just as
our nightly sleep is the denial of our feverish activities
of the day, so let one part of our mind deny the worldly
preoccupations of the other part. Let one part of our
energy and time be devoted to the denial of our world-
ly pursuits and to meditation on the Absolute. We
must continue this way from day to day, year to year;
and we must try to give more and more time and
energy and mind to God than to the world, till God
engulfs our whole time and being.We feel that the
We Nentimenta and ideas
॥॥Nat(A ।AeS. Na1V
here wil jar o ॥NANY ।
them have gAn।n g॥ hAgO ॥elg Wkt।
preoceupation vitt। the
İndia's downfall,Ve towel ॥Ke IG uK \NNat doos i
matter? Are \w to |uONy५ NAteYia
prosperity and political treedom 1 ॥he t ॥॥
religion, religion must be practised in spite ot lndia's
तownfal! and other things. thee e TteTal, \whieh
lf is
0ul of outr ১OUl, shNuld w VA ।N TeAL o
is the Soul
material prosperity? They know little othe ২TLS O
the soul who believe that hunman nature can be
attached permanerntly to temporal pursuits, They
know only the surface of the mind. The great depths
are unknown and nonexistent to them. But of course.
we shall not retort that way. We want to point out that
preoccupation with God is not harmful even to nation
al work. It is useless to try to convince those who do not
believe in religion. But those who do and yet want
inessant work and no eommunion with he EteTNA।
are self-deluded. Such workers may be good enough
for hurry and bustle, but ।hey are not soli yole
themselves; and their work will be lacking in far-reach-
ing influence. They will only move on the surface. The
deep powers of the soul are hidden for them and they
cannot bring themn to bear on their work. If they want to
produce lasting results, unblemished by vicious errors,
they must abide a long time everyday with God in the
silence of their soul, and then their vision will be clear
and their feelings and actions free from error. But it is no joke to realize the silence pregnant with
One must try to their objects
to withdraw the senses from
the Divine.
and the mind from its multifarious thoughts and emo-
do this, only those who
know. One must practise regularity, at certain hours of
the day. Thus through long practice, the mind may be
habituated to remain balanced even amidst outWard
preoccupations.
tions. How hard it is to try
So here again, wwe are faced by the truth that our
main work is the denial of earthly life. So long as we
believe world activities, even service of men, to be the
utmost real, how can we acquire the power to deny
them? There must be the strong conviction within us
that God, after all, is the only reality and nothing else
exists. Without that conviction, the outgoing tenden-
cies and powers of the mind cannot be checked and
concentrated.
