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they are sure that, even if they go into a cave and close the door and simply think five true: thoughts and then pass away, these five thoughts of theirs will live through eternity. Indeed such thoughts will penetrate through the mountains and cross the oceans, and travel through the world, and will enter, deep into human hearts and brains and raise up men and women who will give them practical expression in the workings of human life. These Sattvika men are too near the Lord to be active and to fight, to be working, struggl, ing, preaching, and doing good, as they say, here on earth to humanity. The active workers, however good, have still a little remnant of ignorance left in them. When our nature has yet some impurities left in it, then alone can we
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work. It is in the nature of work to be impelled ordinarily by motive and by attachment. In the presence of an ever-active providence and before God who notes even the sparrows fall, how can man attach any importance to his own work? Will it not be a blasphemy to do, so when we
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