====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | SEPTEMBER 1935 == ---- “The life of action need not be renounced. If you will meditate for an hour or two every day, you can carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner, then the current of mind indeed will continue to flow even in the midst of your work. It is as though there were two ways of expressing the same idea; the same line you will take in meditation will be expressed in your activities.” “What will be the result of doing that?” “As you go on you will find that your attitude toward people, events and objects will gradually change. Your actions will tend to follow your meditations of their own accord.” “Then you do not agree with the Yogis?” But the Maharishi eludes a direct answer. “A man should surrender the personal selfishness which binds him to this world. Giving up the false self is the true renunciation.” “How is it possible to become selfless while leading a life of worldly activity?” “There is no conflict between work and wisdom.” “Do you mean that one can continue all the old activities in one’s profession, for instance, and at the same time get enlightenment?” “Why not? But in that case one will not think it is the old personality which is doing the work, because one’s consciousness will gradually become transferred until it is centered in That which is beyond the little self.” “If a person is engaged in work, there will be little time left for him to meditate.” “Setting apart time for meditation is only for spiritual novices. A man who is advancing will begin to enjoy the deeper beatitude, whether he is at work, or not. While his hands are in society, he keeps his head cool in solitude.” “Then you do not teach the way of Yoga?” “The Yogi tries to drive his mind to the goal, as a cowherd drives a bull with a stick; but on this path the seeker coaxes the bull by holding out a handful of grass.” {{ :3509-12.jpg |}} ---- //⥳ [[editorial_sep35_3|previous page]] // | // [[editorial_sep35_5|next page]] ⥴ //