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say that there is no hurry about it, and on each occasion that you think that your business matters ought not to suffer for devotion to the Godhead, you seal your own doom and drive an additional nail into your coffin with your own hands. Whenever in the future you chance to evolve out an inclination for God-realization, you will have to draw out each nail so driven in by you' from your coffin. If time is money and may not be wasted in business, it is still more valuable in religion.
Again, you must not be vague about your ideal. You must know what you want and see that you have a clear, vivid impression of it, so that, should you come across the good angel who grants all desires, you may be in a position to tell him precisely what you want. Do not he guided by what others have thought or said on the subject, without sifting it for yourself. You would be nowhere if in reply to your request for an admission ticket into the Kingdom of Heaven the angel told you that he did not understand what you meant by that term. You must have a clear idea of the thing desired before you can ever expect to get it. This is so even in the realm of matter. A manufacturer would come to speedy grief if he did not happen to have a definite idea of the thing he intended to manufacture.
One must strive for the attainment of the highest ideal. If you accept a baser substitute, you will be in need again, and will have to ask again and again, from time to time, but you cannot go on begging all your life through. Now, you want to be above want; you wish for that condition in which there never will be any need, or trouble, or misery. That condition only exists in God,
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