Even if you should prefer death, your death could not now be of your own choosing; for, having been chosen, there is no escape from service to the Purpose, and though you would certainly die if courage failed you, your death would be more terrible than life, since it would serve the Purpose without benefiting you.
"You are both honest men," he continued, "for the one has resigned honors and emoluments in the army for the sake of serving India; the other has accepted toilsome service under a man who seeks, however mistakenly, to serve the world.

If you were not honest you would never have been chosen.

If you had made no sacrifices of your own free will, you would not have been acceptable." Yasmini clasped her hands and laid her chin on them among the cushions.
She was reveling in intellectual enjoyment, as sinfully I daresay as some folk revel in more material delights.

The Mahatma took no notice of her, but continued.
"You have heard of the _Kali-Yug_, the age of darkness.

It is at an end.
The nations presently begin to beat swords into plowshares because the time has come.