Passage 18

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He crossed the …, but he did not cross the senses. He did not restrain his own mind. This heroism … …. One man went up Everest and planted the flag. He too, because he went … day and night, forgot his home. He had a son very dear to him …; the boy pined for his father, and before the father came back the son died. 'He has died …': even as he …, he fell under a train. Is this fellow a hero! A great weakling. Birth and death are …. Sunk only in my own selfishness, I took another's life. So the one who should have given up selfishness, holding that … … is not the chief thing, gave up his life. A mad … … not a hero. So what is it that we must do? We must give up selfishness. Whether it was … or unfavourable to us, we entered into God's work. Many comforts … … we gave up. We came here. To shape the children well, set them on the spiritual … path, and that you too experience Ānanda in the spiritual: that alone is Swami's … aim.

Now I will tell you a small thing and finish. Above all, first of all, understand …. Swami has not the least selfishness. There is no … for you to … any work for Swami's sake. My hand only ever goes like this; it never goes like this. Swami's heart … … is vast. All Swami's actions are free of selfishness and pure. Swami's Prema too is fault…. Such Prema is not to be found anywhere in the world, wherever you search. Except with Swami alone. Some … … within have more or less of selfishness. But in Swami there is no selfishness at all. Whether harsh… …, whether I act as if angry, whether I come in with Prema, all these are only kinds of Prema and nothing else …; but at certain times, in view of certain conduct, some … words have to be changed, toward the right path. That you take to be anger. No, no. The … vessel is wholly the sweet rasa. There is nothing but the rasa of Prema. The … I see with My eyes is the rasa of Prema. What I hear is the rasa of Prema. What I speak is the rasa of Prema. Even the steps I walk are Prema …. Only when you first understand it in this way will you give no room at all to these bad feelings … or to bad counsel.

For what did I spend so many crores and build this institution? So that some few children … … could be offered to the country as a great ideal. But we did not set it up as a business …!