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calm of non-resistance; we feel that it would be better for us to resist. If you desire wealth, and know at the same time that the whole world is of opinion that he who aims at wealth is a very wicked man, you, perhaps, will not dare to plunge into the struggle for wealth, yet all along your mind is running day and night after making money this is downright hypocrisy and will serve no purpose. Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfil your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness and serenity and selfsurrender. These ideas of serenity and renunciation have been preached for thousands of years; every body born has heard of them from childhood, and yet we see very few in the world that have
