Inward Peace

Activity is better than inertia. Act, but with self-control. If you are lazy, you cannot even sustain your own body.
     The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God. therefore you must perform every action sacramentally, and be free from all attachment to results.
— Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God), Prabhavanada and Isherwood (trs.), p. 52.

     As for those others, the devotees of God the manifest, indefinable and changeless, they worship that which is omnipresent, constant, eternal, beyond thought's compass, never to be moved. They hold all the senses in check. They are tranquil-minded, and devoted to the wellfare of humanity. They see Atman in every creature. They also will certainly come to me.
     But the devotees of the unmanifest have a harder task, because the unmanifest is very difficult for embodied souls to realize.
— Ibid., p. 128.

When the mind and the heart
Are freed from delusion,
United with Brahman,
When steady will
Has subdued the senses,
When sight and taste
And sound are abandoned
Without regretting,
Without aversion;
When man seeks solitude,
Eats but little,
Curbing his speech,
His mind and his body,
Ever engaged
In his meditation
On Brahman the truth,
And full of compassion;
When he casts from him
Vanity, violence,
Pride, lust, anger
And all his possessions,
Totally free
From the sense of ego
And tranquil of heart:
That man is ready
For oneness with Brahman.

And he who dwells
United with Brahman,
Calm in mind,
Not grieving, nor craving,
Regarding all men
With equal acceptance:
He loves me most dearly.

To love is to know me,
My innermost nature,
The truth that I am:
Through this knowledge he enters
At once to my Being.

All that he does
Is offered before me
In utter surrender:
My grace is upon him,
He finds the eternal,
The place unchanging.
— Ibid., pp. 170-171.