Burning Desire

The typhoon-like forces of greed, self-importance, fame, success and tension of the rat-race are so powerful that they impel a man to go to great lengths and can fling him anywhere. Generally speaking ordinary and spiritually-lacking people are swept away by these forces. Many such people believing in only some ‘-ism’ have strayed in their lives and reached nowhere.

Do not wander away. When you come at such a point in your life, remember the day when the sapling of faith burst in your heart. Remember your earlier enthusiasm for hard work and try to find out whether the same is not ebbing away. 

Burning desire to achieve something can inspire a man to work a hundred times more than his normal capacity, so much work, that you will be amazed at what I have achieved single-handely. From creating such a variety and volume of literature to creating a national and international network and ushering in a character-building revolution, to creating over 2400 ashrams --- how were these started and successfully carried out. A burning desire to achieve and hard work to bring it about are inherit in this.

Had I tarried, then perhaps I would have become a lowly person for whom getting a daily meal would also have been a problem. May be that my sole purpose would have been just to accumulate money for personal pleasure by hook or cook but then I would not have been able to carry out this Himalayan task.