IT IS HARD WORK, MY BOY, HARD WORK! TO KEEP ONE'S SELF STEADY

"To work we have the right, not to the fruits thereof." It is hard work, my boy, hard work! To keep one's self steady in the midst of this whirl of Kâma-Kânchana (lust and gold) and hold on to one's own ideals, until disciples are moulded to conceive of the ideas of realisation and perfect renunciation, is indeed difficult work, my boy. Thank God, already there is great success.

- Swami Vivekananda
U. S. A.,17th February, 1896.