CWSV Volume 2
Rama says take up your duty or work with no notice or desire on your part. Do your work, enjoy your work, because your work by itself is pleasure, because work is the other name of realization. Take to your work because work you have to do. Work leads you to realization. Do not take to work on any other ground. Come to your work in an independent spirit, just as a prince to play football or some other game for pleasure’s sake, so come to your work because pleasure or happiness lives in the garb of work. Independent we feel, not bound by a thing.
CWSV Volume 3
It is very generally represented in America and England that in India the wife is not respected and loved. This is a very false idea, for in India the wife is more loved and respected than in this country. In this country the wife is loved and kissed and fondled in public but in private the wife is rejected. In India the husband pays but little or no respect to the wife in public, but in his heart of hearts he worships her.’
CWSV Volume 3
Many false reports are spread by people who see not life in India, and yet live in India, just as you take a book, and wrap it in oil – cloth and submerge it in water, the water is all around the book, but does not get to the book. Just so people live in India but do not mix with the people of India, they do not become one with the people of India. Here is a woman who lived in India, and lived in the Indian style and is bearing witness. Rama wishes Americans to visit India in the same way as this woman. If you go as real workers, you will have to spend no money from your pocket. People there are supporting millions of men. The people there are very poor, but they are very generous.
CWSV Volume 3
Nearly two thirds of the entire population are dependent upon rainfall for their prosperity and, one may say, their lives. If there is a drought, there is a famine. They cannot earn enough to lay up food against starvation. Not lack of food, but lack of money causes the suffering from famine, as generally when there is famine in one part of India there is enough, and sometimes more than enough food raised in other parts of the country.
CWSV Volume 3
The downfall, the decline of India, is explained by the Vedanta philosophy. It is a matter of Karma. Karma means something brought about by our own doings. The literal meaning of the word Karma is action, our own doing. What they are reaping is what they sowed for themselves the other day. As the Hindus ill treated the aborigines of India, so they m their turn are being treated by the conquering nations. As everybody who falls sick is responsible for his sickness, brings about his sickness by ignorance, by over – eating or violating the laws of health, so the Indians are sick, diseased by their own doing or through ignorance.
