The first case that he got related to the Small Cases Court. He, after some time, started practice on the criminal side, which was certainly better paying than the civil practice. He did not accept any case relating to taxation, labour laws and mercantile law. He cannot be said to be a great success at the Bar, for the simple reason that his heart was elsewhere. His attention was divided.
Divided attention implies less concentration on legal practice and the law is a jealous mistress.
He was writing books and he was establishing societies and institutes of the social and literary type. He took service rendered to the people in an unselfish spirit as another good way of pleasing God. He established the Rural Welfare Society of India, which rendered relief and rescue work to the Indian villages. He established Better Living Societies in some villages, which aimed at a better living, a better business and a better farming for the teeming millions inhabiting the villages. Discipleship is not a contract voidable at the option of the parties, but is a relationship, which even death cannot severe.