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.

The other aspect is the aspect of the master. Resistance against all that increases his weakness, that appeals to his weakness, the tendency of continual perseverance, courage and boldness, firmness and steadiness, all such qualities manifest in the master. That is the difference between saint and master. One is active, the other passive; one is resigned, the other persistent. But at the same time both are going forward. Only their ways are different; one is the positive way, the other the negative way; one is the way of power, the other of gentleness. Nevertheless, both have their purpose to accomplish in the scheme of nature.

In the master's path the will is used mostly in regard to outer things; in the saintly path the will is used to control one's own self; in other words it is used for the time being against one's own self. The saint is resigned to Kaza, and the master has regard for Kadr. But in order to know the will of God it is wise first to take one's own will in hand and use it in the knowledge that it is given for some great purpose in life.