The saintly temperament is the negative temperament, resigned, perfectly resigned, to the will of God.

• The saint has learnt patience, confidence, endurance, tolerance.
• He has carried the cross, he is crucified a thousand times in his life.
• He knows what love means.
• He has taken a path of devotion; he leads a life of service.
• He has effaced himself; he has crushed his personality.
• He has dissolved the rock out of which he was made into water.
• That is why the saintly personality gives peace and harmony and comfort to those who come in contact with it.
• It is such a personality which heals and lifts up those who are groping in darkness, who are touching the depths of the earth.
• He has developed the love that one sees in a mother and father but he has that love for every person, for every soul.
• It is not just a fable that the trees and plants and rocks spoke to the saints. It is the truth. When a person has developed that sympathy, he is sympathetic to rock and plant and tree; everything in nature opens up before him. It is through that at-one-ment that he is able to communicate with every form of life, whatever it is.
• Therefore it is not necessary that he should leave the world; whether he is in the forest or amidst the world's strife, the soul of man is always capable of rising to the greatest heights, if only he wishes to attain to them.