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YOGA OF SERVICE
will put these Babu-aspirants to carrying the motionbuckets of the sick for a year, washing plates for another year, and sweeping the room and washing the clothes of the sick the third year. Then alone they will become real aspirants. Then alone they will be ready for the commencement of meditation.
If an Ashram is not properly conducted, the kitchen becomes a fighting centre. The whole Maya is in the kitchen. Aspirants begin to fight there. One aspirant says: "I did not get any ghee or vegetables today.” Another aspirant says: "The dal soup was very watery. Viswaranjan added plain Ganges water to the soup. He dislikes me.” But if there is a really developed Karma Yogi to train the young students, the real Adwaita Vedanta begins in the kitchen of an Ashram and ends in the Vasishtha Guha of the Himalayas. A kitchen is the best training ground or school for developing tolerance, endurance, forbearance, mercy, sympathy, love, adaptability, and the spirit of real service for purifying one's heart and for realizing the oneness of life. Every aspirant should know how to cook well.
If one lives with his Guru, he must be prepared to do willingly any work assigned to him. If you create interest in work which the mind revolts against, you later like to do any kind of work By so doing, you will undoubtedly develop your will-power
Balance of mind brings about real lasting happiness to a disciplined man. It is not a commodity which can
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