Spirit.  He was not moved by any dammed sense of prudence and caution.  He drew the “Motives” that energised his Will-Power in the life of Action from Within.  Nothing from outside, nothing from the world of lower attractions could in the least swerve his inner determination or unbalance his brain.  Do you or can you prepare yourself to follow in his steps?  Then my first point and the most infallible method of awakening your Will-Power is this: 

(a) Teach Thy Will to “Resist and Renounce.”  Strengthen your Will-Power by Renunciation.  By Resistance is not meant outer resistance or aggressiveness.  I find that all the modern teachers of Hypnotism advise their students to develop Will-Power by exercising it upon others.  This is placing the cart before the horse.  We Hindus know better.  No; by Resistance to and Repression of your lower Desire-Nature is meant letting the more difficult choice exercise its compelling and restraining power over the easier one.  Says Sister Nivedita:  “The Indian ideal is that man whose lower mind is so perfectly under control that he can at any moment plunge into the thought-ocean and remain there at will without the least possibility of a sudden break and unexpected return to the life of the senses.”  Yes, your interests should be within and not without. You must rise above all personal impulse.  Even in this world you find that men of distinction, fame and honour have achieved recognition by practising a little self-denial, which is a “milder” form of absolute Renunciation as practised by true Sanyasis.  The man who can work at his aim with perseverance and denies himself the mess of pottage of present indulgence in view of some future gain develops Will-Power.  So in training your Will to ‘resist’, you must, as a first step, sternly refuse to indulge impulses, desires and tendencies not in consonance with the dictates of your Higher Self.  You must actually go out of your way and “deny” yourself the little or great “comforts” to which you are or have been accustomed.  The strongest-willed man is he who has the greatest control over his inclinations, and who can ‘force’ himself to do such things as he is naturally most inclined to do.  This is a characteristic which cannot be developed in a day.  There are some children and even grown-up men and women who mistake their ‘obstinacy’ for Will-Power.  They want a thing and when they do not get it they tear their hair, gnash their teeth, stamp their feet and fly into a terrible passion.  Since people think that these uncontrolled creatures are strong-willed while all that you could say about them is that they are utter slaves to their desires.  You must practise self-denial in fifty different ways and force yourself to do certain things, ‘little and big,’ every day purely for developing this power of Resistance.  No short-cut to this.  Some children develop it unconsciously by ‘forcing’ themselves to study when they might play, and by applying themselves