In plain words
If it is good, you send it in. If it is bad, you send it out. In you there is the quality of sacrifice. In you there is forbearance. Though sharp, hard teeth surround you, you move carefully in their midst. So our words must be of great worth. We must go on cultivating sacred thoughts. Only then will the MBA degrees you have studied for have value. Only then can you be patient with the managers and workers who work with you, and get the work done.
Control of the senses is true yoga
Socrates too went on making a habit of just such patience and forbearance. One day he was sitting in the drawing room, thinking. His wife served the meal and called him. Because he was deep in some great thought, he did not hear. Whenever you saw him, he was thinking of what is good. His wife was very angry. She called many times, but he did not answer. She took a pot of water and poured it over his head. Socrates came to himself and thought, ‘Every day there was thunder and cloud; today the rain has fallen!’ But he did not get angry at what his wife had done. We must attain that kind of patience. When someone abuses us in some way, anger must not rise in us at once. So from this very age we must strive for control of the senses. That is true yoga. ‘Yogaḥ cittavṛtti nirodhakaḥ.’ When we hold good thoughts, good comes to us in one way or another. So you must always keep thinking, ‘I am a man.’ ‘I am a man’ is half the truth. ‘I am not a beast’ is the other half of the truth. Only then will you not enter the path of the beast. You must try to develop human values. Among the human values, only two are chief. They are Satya and Prema. When these two become one, all the rest merge into them. One day Socrates was walking along, thinking. Another man, an officer, was also coming along, walking with his head bowed.