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The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

VIII. CONCLUSION They are the salt of the earth. They were called upon to play their parts on a vast stage; ours may be an infinitely narrower one, but the Master of the stage is the same. The area in which they moved was very large; ours may be very small, but the centre, round which we have to perform the divine dance, is the same. Each one of us has to sacrifice ourselves our petty and narrow and circumscribing selves in order to be one with the Self. We have to burn ourselves out with a heart and a will and a cheer each in his or her own sphere : our wicks may be ever so flimsy, our oil ever so poor, our flame ever so feeble, just enough to light our narrow paths, but ultimately our dim lights will blend right enough with the Universal Flame. All sacrifice, no matter how small or great, provided it is pure, reaches Him, ranks the same with Him, there is no last nor first.