Even if with the hoops of svadharma, you bind the bale of samsara, and keep it of uniform weight, then too all sorts of troubles arise, and you become disgusted. Even in your svadharma you will get entangled with persons and institutions, and will exclaim, "How did I get into this mess?" But only then is your mind tested on the touchstone. Merely by making one's own the practice of svadharma, one does not become unattached to samsara. Reducing the area of one's activity is not the same as being unattached.

3. How then can we achieve detachment? We should put into the effort the whole of our mind. Without the mind's help, nothing can succeed. We see how a boy whose parents have sent him to a school hostel where he gets up early in the morning, drinks no tea and performs suryanamaskar (Sun-worship with its rhythmic exercises), goes back home and, in few days, reverts to his old habits. 

A man is not a lump of clay. If we wish to give a certain shape to his mind, after all, the mind must receive it : if the mind does not accept it, then we have to admit that all this education from without is useless. So, in the process of growth, the co-operation of the mind is essential. 

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