With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

Bullies are always cowards.