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one see well, none can dispense with self-exertion. Let him
exert himself in any way he likes ; and, indeed, no man will
work in any way but that which will conduce to the accom-
plishment of the desire that is most strong' within him. But
let him know for sure, and ever bear in mind most firmly, that
good comes of good acts, and ill alone of ill,

"Know well that Destiny achieveth not its ends without
due means. Both are predestined. Effort is the means for
human being's. Desire (V^san^i) is realised, materialised, in
action. Everyone acts only as he most desires. The long--
cultivated and intensified desire of past births appears as the
Guiding" Pate of this life's actions. Action is desire
densified, made visible, desire is mind, and mind is man.
When men say Destiny drives them to do a thing, they mean
but this, that the sum of their past Karma is so leading them.
That Fate which they refer to is this sum, which they have
made, for the time being, stronger than their present selves, by
incurring liabilities to it. In the detailed working of the world,
the stronger is the fate of the weaker, nothing else. Then let
men try unceasingly by well-directed effort to bscoms stronger
than their fate. Behold the Rshi Vishvamitra here. By a
thousand years of rigid self-control and high austerities he
tfmmphed o^er the fate which gave him a Kshattriya body,
and won true Brahmana-hood in that same body, so that I my-
self, between whom and the Eshi there had been a bitter and
most cruel war in bygone ages, welcomed him, by order of the
Father of the worlds, as a BrahmarshL

"So should the earnest searcher, when the mood of grace
is on him, take advantage of it to the utmost and promote it;

and when the evil mood asserts itself, then let hinn battle
strongly with it as he can. The mood of grace, the pure
desire for knowledge and for peace, is with thee now, as blossom