In plain words
So only when each person asks himself, “Am I doing work worthy of my salary or not?” does that salary become meaningful. We want our salary to grow, but we do not want our work to grow. Work is important. That is our true strength. To keep work in view is morality. That is purity. Work and purity is real strength; our strength is work and purity.
What I say and what I do are one
Students! You may not know this. What I say and what I do are one and the same. You can think about it in a small matter. For a week now the undergraduate boys, the postgraduate students, the second year and the third year have been sending Me letters by post in many bundles. In one way, I am glad. Because all thirty boys of a class put their letters together and send them in one pack, the postage comes down. If the thirty had put them in thirty covers, the postage would have gone up. But they have done Me another favour as well. Only on some covers do they write a name, “from” or “to” or “Swami” or something, and send them. On the rest of the covers there is neither a “from” address nor a “to” address. Do you know what I do? I take out all the matter inside and give all the covers to Kāruṇyānanda to collect. So that those covers too are not wasted, since no address has been written on them. They are blank covers. Why should they be wasted? So I set these covers aside too. That is how I economise.
Now and then some people write letters. Many of our boys write too. The sheets of paper are folded. The letter is on one side only; the paper on the second side is blank. I tear across the blank part like this, keep the blank paper with Me, and put the rest in the waste paper basket.