CHAPTER
Emrtion and

"Spare not Effort. Think not
within the reach of everyone in t
endeavour is made resolutely, and the seeker turns not back,
losing heart half way. By tireless effort only, has one indivi-
dual Jiva gained the place of Indra, king" of the three worlds.
By tireless exertion only? has another ^wave of Chit'(1) become
the Lotus-seated Brahma, the Creator of these worlds. So by
highest efforts of their own have two great Beings gained the
foremost places of Vishnu and Mahesha. Indeed, when of two
fruits that grow on the same stalk, one gains its true fulness
of "ice and roundness, while the other hangs sapless, and dry,
and hollow, know that this is caused by nothing else than the
latent consciousness of Rasa (sap) making due effort in the one
alone and not the other.

"Two are the kinds of effort : the effort of the past and
the effort of today. Of these two, the latter will prevail over
the former, and well-directed effort will achieve its object, even
as light brings out the differences of colours. Man always
gets only as he endeavours, and what is known as Daiva,
Destiny, is naught else than his convergent previous Karma
only. There is no other Fate than this. And like two rams
they fight, these two, the present Karma and the past, and
now the one prevails and now the other, and the stronger wins
at last. Therefore let the man call up his energies, and,
setting teeth ^and clenching hands, let him conquer past with
present effort. The past may be long gathered, but the present
can be carried longer still into the future^ The common cry,
*Tis fate !,' of men after defeat, is nothing but the cry, ^Oh I
misery p, that men will utter after suffering. It only means the
(1) .Ihje Principle of OoufioipusneRB*