Passage 2

In English

Peace is an ennobling, elevating experience

Peace is not just an external polish, which can be put on or brushed off. It is not the same as fortitude, like that which young had when he bore without a tear or a gasp the hundred blows with a cane administered to test his stamina. It is not the resignation that comes of frustrated ambition or satisfied desire. It is an ennobling, elevating experience, which comes when one attains merger with the very source of one’s being. It is the stilling of the waves, the calming of mental activities and agitations. Everyone who has attained it has hoisted the Flag; in fact, each one of you should strive to unfurl it on your own hearts. You must all become an army of virtuous (dharmic) workers, equipped with the weapons of truth, righteousness, peace, and love (, , , and ) to revive humanity and rid it of all the ills with which it is now stricken.