BANGALORE: 312. Each one of us has a million lives yet to fulfil upon earth. Why then this haste and clamour and impatience?
313. Stride swiftly for the goal is far: rest not unduly, for thy Master is waiting for thee at the end of thy journey.
314. I am weary of the childish impatience which cries and blasphemes and denies the ideal because the Golden Mountains cannot be reached in our little day or in a few momentary centuries.
315. Fix thy soul without desire upon the end and insist on it by the divine force within thee; then shall the end itself create its means, nay, it shall become its own means.
For the end is Brahman and already accomplished; see it always as Brahman, see it always in thy soul as already accomplished.
316. Plan not with the intellect, but let thy divine sight arrange thy plans for thee. When a means comes to thee as thing to be done, make that thy aim; as for the end, it is, in word, accomplishing itself and, in thee already accomplished.
317. Men see events as unaccomplished, to be striven for and effected. This is false seeing; events are not effected, they develop. The event is Brahman, already accomplished from of old, it is now manifesting.
318. As the light of a star reaches the earth hundreds of years after the star has ceased to exist, so the event already accomplished in Brahman at the beginning manifests itself now in our material experience.
319. Governments, societies, kings, police, judges, institutions, churches, laws, customs, armies are temporary necessities imposed on us for a few groups of centuries because God has truth and beauty, then in that light they will vanish.
320. The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
321. The communism principle of society is intrinsically as superior to the individualistic as is brotherhood to jealousy and mutual slaughter; but all the practical schemes of Socialism invented in Europe are a yoke, a tyranny and a prison.
322. If communism ever reestablishes itself successfully upon earth, it must be on a foundation of soul’s brotherhood and the death of egoism. A forced association and a mechanical comradeship would end in a worldwide fiasco.
323. Vedanta realised is the only practicable basis for a communistic society. It is the kingdom of the saints dreamed of by Christianity, Islam and Puranic Hinduism.
324. “Freedom, equality, brotherhood,” cried the French revolutionists, but in truth freedom only has been practiced with a dose of equality; as for brotherhood, of Cain was founded -- and of Barabbas. Sometimes it calls it self a Trust or Combine and sometimes the Concert of Europe.
325. “Since liberty has failed,” cries the advanced thought of Europe, “let us try liberty cum equality or, since the two are a little hard to pair, equality instead of liberty. For brotherhood, it is impossible; therefore we will replace it by industrial association.” But this time also, I think, God will not be deceived.
326. India had three fortresses of a communal life, the village community, the larger joint family and the orders of the Sannyasins; all these are broken or breaking with the stride of egoistic conceptions of social life; but is not this after all only the breaking of these imperfect moulds on the way to a larger and diviner communism.
327. The individual cannot be perfect until he has surrendered all he now calls himself to the divine Being. So also, until mankind gives all it has to God, never shall there be a perfected society.
328. There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine. He bestows as much labour of divine energy on the formation of a shell as on the building of an empire. For thyself it is greater to be a good shoemaker than a luxurious and incompetent king.
329. Imperfect capacity and effect in the work that is meant for thee is better than an artificial competency and a borrowed perfection.
330. Not result is the purpose of action, but God’s eternal delight in becoming, seeing and doing.