Religious Life

An ambitious mind is obviously an envious mind; and that is our life, it is how we live from day to day. You know that very well without my telling you. At least, I am describing a fact, and if you are unwilling to look at the fact, it is your affair. It is a fact that morality of such a society is mere respectability, the perpetuation of a custom. Our daily life is based on this envious, acquisitive struggle, and we carry the same struggle into the so-called religious life. As we want to achieve something in the worldly life, so we want to achieve reality, we want to get nearer to God, closer to heaven, and all the rest of it in religious life also. The same urge exists there as in this world: we want to be somebody. The same mind set which was working in the worldly life is now working in the religious life. The result is as we exhaust ourselves in the worldly pursuit so we exhaust ourselves in the religious pursuit also. We, therefore, have to understand can an envious mind be a religious mind or it has to be free from envy and jealousy.
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