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YOGA OF SERVICE
repeat his efforts, until by slow degrees he finds that he is beginning to care little for retards (or falls) while he has lost no whit of his energy and painstaking in his actions. He will not seek external activities, but will do his best with every duty that comes in his way and will begin to show the balanced state of mind which marks the crowning strength and detachment of the soul.
He will hasten the attainment of these through a cool estimation of the value of the earth's so-called prices, and will meditate on their transitory nature, the anxiety and unrest of those whose hearts are fixed on them, and the emptiness of them when finally grasped and held, the satiety that follows close on the heels of possession The intellectual appreciation of them will come to his help in disappointment and restrain him in success, and so aid him in giving more equilibrium Here is a field of daily effort which will demand his energies for years
The probationer must remember that much of his work consists in practising the precepts laid down by all earnest religionists.
9. YOGA OF EQUANIMITY Worldly people are generally elated by success and depressed by failure Elation and depression are the attributes of the mind If you want to become a real Karma Yogi in the right sense of the term, you will have to keep a balanced mind at all times, in all con
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