1. (To VNJ): You have your family; I have my family (viz. servants and all).
2. (To GL Maskey):
I am from the beggar-class, you know!
3. I must do my “professional duty “to keep my family” up. If no money, I will go and beg from door to door.
4. To (KM):
You must have a profession. Even in renunciation (Sanyas) you have to have one, e.g. teaching. You have to know cooking also!
5. One should not try to earn by following many vocations: that will upset the social order.
6. (To GD):
Q. Can one steal?
A. Yes, but you. must spend 90% in charity and use only 10% for yourself.
7. Anybody has to practice a profession: My profession is to teach RL. I too get something. Other people demand some fixed payment, I don’t. But
everybody gets payment for the services they have rendered.
8. Perfection in practicing profession you must not expect. Avoid extremes. What you are expected to do you should do, not more. Learn from your
teachers.
9. Experience should make you quicker in practicing profession or doing anything.
10. There must be yearning for the Beyond – not balance here.
11. Earn in youth and rest in old age.
12 Zero is the starting point of Mathematics. What is its value?
13. A secure, permanent and greatest income bringing profession is the best.
14. While at Shivapuri, you could not come. Now you can. So some professions make RL difficult, e.g. TL’s work at British Library.
15. In a sense I have to do professional work all the time. But do you think my meditation is disturbed?
16. Q. Sukadev (was) practicing a profession by reciting the Bhagvat, etc?
A.
– Yes, don’t I practice a profession by teaching RL? Who can do without a profession?