TRAINING IN WORK

Do not figure out big plans at first, but begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed, up and up .... Harmony and peace....Let things slowly grow. Rome was not built in a day.

Do only what is possible under existing circumstances. Gradually the way will open to you.

We want the greatest possible good work permanent from the least outlay.

Now you see, you must try to think out original ideas.... else, the whole thing will tumble to pieces. For example, you hold a meeting to consider, "How we can reap the best permanent results out of the small means at our disposal".

The most important thing I have to say is, that work should be started on a scale which would be commensurate with the results desired.

Do not open your mind, unless you feel it will be positively beneficial. Use agreeable and wholesome language towards even the greatest enemy - Everything proceeds slowly by degrees.

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy; that all undertakings are accomplished. "Thath kuru paurusham..." ... Therefore manifest your manhood.

The work is spoiled if plans are not kept secret.... A work can be judged by its results only.

Be perfectly pure in money dealings.... so long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

Isn't is man that makes money? Where did you ever hear of money making man? If you can make your thoughts and words perfectly at one, if you can, I say, make yourself one in speech and action, money will pour in at your feet of itself, like water.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

Take care of those two things - love of power and jealousy. Cultivate always "faith in yourself".

Shreyaansi bahu Vighnaani. "All noble undertakings are fraught with obstacles." It is quite in the nature of things. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not the slightest notice of what the puerile creatures may be saying against you..... Bear in mind- the eyes are two in number and so the ears, but the mouth is but one.

Let us know that all that is negative, all that is destructive, all that is mere criticism is bound to pass away; it is the positive, the affirmative, the constructive that is immortal, that will remain for ever.

Always bear this in mind that we are now standing before the gaze of the world, and that people are watching every one of our actions and utterances. Remember this and work.

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition and then acceptance. Each man who thinks ahead of his time is sure to be misunderstood.

Push on with your work independently. "Many come to sit at dinner when it is cooked." Take care and work on.

Be positive; do not criticize others. Give your message, teach what you have to teach, and there stop.