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It is not that you have to do what you dislike, but that you have
to cease to dislike. To do only what you like is to indulge the vital
and maintain its domination over the nature — for that is the very
principle of the untransformed nature, to be governed by its likes
and dislikes. To be able to do anything with equanimity is the prin-
ciple of karmayoga and to do it with joy because it is done for the
Mother is the true psychic and vital condition in this Yoga.
CWSA 29: 247, 248

All depends upon the attitude
I may say however that I do not regard business as some-
thing evil or tainted, any more than it was so regarded in
ancient spiritual India. If I did, I would not be able to receive
money from X or from those of our disciples who in Bombay
trade with East Africa; nor could we then encourage them to
go on with their work but would have to tell them to throw it
up and attend to their spiritual progress alone. How are we to
reconcile X’s seeking after spiritual light and his mill? Ought I
not to tell him to leave his mill to itself and to the devil and go
into some Ashram to meditate? Even if I myself had had the
command to do business as I had the command to do politics
I would have done it without the least spiritual or moral com-
punction. All depends on the spirit in which a thing is done, the
principle on which it is built and use to which it is turned. I have
done politics and the most violent kind of revolutionary politics,
ghoraW karma, and I have supported war and sent men to it,
even though politics is not always or often a very clean occupa-
tion nor can war be called a spiritual line of action. But Krishna
calls upon Arjuna to carry on war of the most terrible kind and
by his example encourage men to do every kind of human work,
sarvakarmDKi. Do you contend that Krishna was an unspiritual
man and that his advice to Arjuna was mistaken or wrong in

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