The environment helps towards the accomplishment of the desired object. Things that are around you in the house, the clothes your wear, the food you eat, the people you meet, all these things have an effect upon your life. Do not, even in jest, think, speak or act against the object you have in view, because it will have a wrong and depreciating psychological effect. One should constantly think of the object he desires with hope and trust, and even dream of it. And truly, no dream will be lost if it is expressive of the desired object. Because it is, first of all, the desire that brings about the dream, and every desire, if held in the mind, must someday, somehow be realised. Constancy in holding one object to its fulfilment is most necessary. But after the accomplishment one must not cling to the habit thus formed. He must he able to turn from one object to another after his desire has been accomplished. A person who desires an object is smaller than the object, but when he attains the object, he and the object are equal. When he clings to the attained object, he is beneath the object, but when he renounces the acquired object, he rises above it. It is then that he can be called the master of his object.

Common sense is necessary in the path of attainment, but not to such an extent that the reason should dominate and lead the will. The will, in action, must lead the reason, whereas if the reason is allowed to lead the will, the will many times becomes paralysed. But when, in co-operation the will leads the reason, then the path of attainment becomes illuminated. The work of common sense in the way of attainment is really to make one understand and comprehend the real meaning and object of the desire: am I really worthy to receive this? Do I in truth deserve it? Can I sustain the purpose of the object when I have acquired it? Can the object become worthy of my pursuit? Shall I prove worthy of the test which the attainment of the object would require?

In the path of attainment, many lose their way and go astray, especially those who are regardless of consideration. There are objects which cannot bring anything but harm, and there are many in this world who would never stop to think of the harm to another, as long as they think that they are safe. But since the very nature of the world is give and take, and as every action has its reaction, and as every cause has its own similar effect, how can one really think that he can be safe by causing harm to another? Often, in many attainments through life there is found a benefit for one by the loss of another. And thus we see it go up and down through life, like a scale. And this is a matter of time and experience, and often one finds that a momentary gain is more disastrous than the loss would have been. Therefore the wise have a greater gain as their object through life than the objects of sense of the average man, who is ever in pursuit of transitory gain, and in success and in failure both he is at a loss, because in the end both may get little. The wise, therefore, fix their eyes on that divine attainment, that divine ideal, which is the best object possible, and by the attainment of that object they enjoy eternal bliss.