HOW TO LOVE YOUR WORK !

 

                                         

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                     "   DONT DO WORK LIKE SLAVE  "

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                         HELPING OTHERS PHYSICALLY, BY REMOVING THEIR PHYSICAL NEEDS, IS INDEED GREAT, BUT THE HELP IS GREAT ACCORDING AS THE NEED IS GREATER AND ACCORDING AS THE HELP IS FAR REACHING . IF A MAN'S WANTS CAN BE REMOVED FOR AN HOUR, IT IS HELPING HIM INDEED, IF HIS WANTS CAN BE REMOVED FOR A YEAR, IT WILL BE MORE HELP TO HIM, BUT IF HIS WANTS CAN BE REMOVED FOR EVER, IT IS SURELY THE GREATEST HELP THAT CAN BE GIVEN HIM. SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN DESTROY OUR MISERIES FOR EVER, ANY OTHER THING THAT CAN DESTROY OUR MISERIES FOR EVER, ANY OTHER KNOWLEDGE SATISFIES WANTS ONLY FOR A TIME. IT IS ONLY WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPIRIT THAT THE FACULTY OF WANT IS ANNIHILATED FOR EVER, SO HELPING MAN SPIRITUALLY IS THE HIGHEST HELP THAT CAN BE GIVEN TO HIM.

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                        HE WHO GIVES MAN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE IS THE GREATEST BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND AND AS SUCH WE ALWAYS FIND THAT THOSE WERE THE MOST POWERFUL OF MEN WHO HELPED MAN IN HIS SPIRITUAL NEEDS, BECAUSE SPIRITUALLITY IS THE TRUE BASIS OF ALL OUR ACTIVITIES IN LIFE. A SPIRITUALLY STRONG AND SOUND MAN WILL BE STRONG IN EVERY OTHER RESPECT, IF HE SO WISHES. UNTIL THERE IS SPIRITUAL STRENGTH IN MAN EVEN PHYSICAL NEEDS CANNOT BE WELL SATISFIED. NEXT TO SPIRITUAL COMES INTELLECTUAL HELP. THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE IS A FAR HIGHER GIFT THAN THAT OF FOOD AND CLOTHES, IT IS EVEN HIGHER THAN GIVING LIFE TO A MAN, BECAUSE THE REAL LIFE OF MAN CONSISTS OF KNOWLEDGE. IGNORANCE IS DEATH, KNOWLEDGE IS LIFE. LIFE IS OF VERY LITTLE VALUE, IF IT IS A LIFE IN THE DARK, GROPING THROUGH IGNORANCE AND MISERY. NEXT IN ORDER COMES, OF COURSE, HELPING A MAN PHYSICALLY. THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERING THE QUESTION OF HELPING OTHERS, WE MUST ALWAYS STRIVE NOT TO COMMIT THE MISTAKE OF THINKING THAT PHYSICAL HELP IS THE ONLY HELP THAT CAN BE GIVEN. 

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                      IT IS NOT ONLY THE LAST BUT THE LEAST, BECAUSE IT CANNOT BRING ABOUT PERMANENT SATISFACTION. THE MISERY THAT I FEEL WHEN I AM HUNGRY IS SATISFIED BY EATING, BUT HUNGER RETUNRS, MY MISERY CAN CEASE ONLY WHEN I AM SATISFIED BEYOND ALL WANT. THEN HUNGER WILL NOT MAKE ME MISERABLE, NO DISTRESS, NO SORROW WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE ME. SO, THAT HELP WHICH TENDS OF MAKE US STRONG SPIRITUALLY IS THE HIGHEST, NEXT TO IT COMES INTELLECTUAL HELP, AND AFTER THAT PHYSICAL HELP.

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                              THE WHOLE GIST OF THIS TEACHING IS THAT YOU SHOULD WORK LIKE A MASTER AND NOT AS A SLAVE, WORK INCESSANTLY, BUT DO NOT DO SLAVE'S WORK. DO YOU NOT SEE HOW EVERYBODY WORKS? NOBODY CAN BE ALTOGETHER AT REST, NINETY-NINE PER CENT OF MANKIND WORK LIKE SLAVES, AND THE RESULT IS MISERY, IT IS ALL SELFISH WORK. WORK THROUGH FREEDOM! WORK THROUGH LOVE! THE WORLD "LOVE" IS VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND, LOVE NEVER COMES UNTIL THERE IS FREEDOM. THERE IS NO TRUE LOVE POSSIBLE IN THE SLAVE. IF YOU BUY A SLAVE AND TIE HIM DOWN IN CHAINS AND MAKE HIM WORK FOR YOU, HE WILL WORK LIKE A DRUDGE, BUT THERE WILL BE NO LOVE IN HIM. SO WHEN WE OURSELVES WORK FOR THE THINGS OF THE WORLD AS SLAVES, THERE CAN BE NO LOVE IN US, AND OUR WORK IS NOT TRUE WORK. THIS IS TRUE OF WORK DONE FOR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, AND IS TRUE OF WORK DONE FOR OUR OWN SELVES. SELFISH WORK IS SLAVE'S WORK, AND HERE IS A TEST. EVERY ACT OF LOVE BRINGS HAPPINESS, THERE IS NO ACT OF LOVE WHICH DOES NOT BRING PEACE AND BLESSESNESS AS ITS REACTION .

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                      REAL EXISTENCE, REAL KNOWLEDGE, AND REAL LOVE ARE ETERNALLY CONNECTED WITH ONE ANOTHER, THE THREE IN ONE, WHERE ONE OF THEM IS, THE OTHERS ALSO MUST BE, THEY ARE THE THREE ASPECTS OF THE ONE WITHOUT A SECOND - THE EXISTENCE - KNOWLEDGE- BLISS. WHEN THAT EXISTENCE BECOMES RELATIVE WE SEE IT AS THE WORLD, THAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THAT BLISS FORMS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL TRUE LOVE KNOWN TO THE HEART OF MAN. THEREFORE TRUE LOVE CAN NEVER REACT SO AS TO CAUSE PAIN EITHER TO THE LOVER OR TO THE BELOVED. 

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                        SUPPOSE A MAN LOVES A WOMAN, HE WISHES TO HAVE HER ALL TO HIMSELF, HED WANTS HER TO SIT NEAR HIM, TO STAND NEAR HIM, AND TO EAT AND  MOVE AT HIS SLAVE. THAT IS NOT LOVE, IT IS A KIND OF MORBID AFFECTION OF THE SLAVE, INSINUATING ITSELF AS LOVE. IT CANNOT BE LOVE, BECAUSE IT IS PAINFUL, IF SHE DOES NOT DO WHAT HE WANTS, IT BRINGS HIM PAIN. WITH LOVE THERE IS NO PAINFUL REACTION, LOVE ONLY BRINGS A REACTION OF BLISS, IF IT DOES NOT, IT IS NOT LOVE, IT IS MISTAKING SOMETHING ELSE FOR LOVE. WHEN YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED IN LOVING YOUR HUSBAND, YOUR WIFE, YOUR CHILDREN, THE WHOLE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE, IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THERE IS NO REACTION OF PAIN OR JEALOUSY, NO SELFISH FEELING, THEN YOU ARE IN A FIT STATE TO BE UNATTACHED.

THE FORCES OF NATURE!

 

                           THE NATURE FORCES - SATTVA,

                                      RAJAS, AND TAMAS

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                         EACH IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE'

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                       ACCORDING TO THE SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY, NATURE IS COMPOSED OF THREE FORCES CALLED IN SANSKRIT, SATTVA, RAJAS, AND TAMAS. THESE ARE MANIFESTED IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD ARE WHAT WE MAY CALL EQUILIBRIUM, ACTIVITY, AND INERTNESS. TAMAS IS TYPIFIED AS DARKNESS OR INACTIVITY, RAJAS IS ACTIVITY, EXPRESSED AS ATTRACTION OR REPULSION, AD SATTVA IS THE EQUILIBRIUM OF THE TWO THINGS.

                           IN EVERY MAN THERE ARE THESE THREE FORCES, SOMETIMES TAMAS PREVAILS, WE BECOME LAZY, WE CANNOT MOVE, WE ARE INACTIVE, BOUND DOWN BY CERTAIN IDEAS OR BY MERE DULLNESS. AT OTHER TIME ACTIVITY PREVAILS, AND AT STILL OTHER TIMES THAT CALM BALANCING OF BOTH . AGAIN, IN DIFFERENT MEN, ONE OF THESE FORCES IS GENERALLY PREDOMINANT. THE CHARACTERISTIC OF ONE MAN IS INACTIVITY, DULLNESS AND LAZINESS, THAT OF ANOTHER, ACTIVITY, POWER, MANIFESTATION OF ENERGY, AND IN STILL ANOTHER WE FIND THE SWEETNESS, CALMNESS, AND GENTLENESS WHICH ARE DUE TO THE BALANCING OF BOTH ACTION AND INACTION. SO IN ALL CREATION - IN ANIMALS, PLANTS, AND MEN- WE FIND THE MORE OR LESS TYPICAL MANIFESTATION OF ALL THESE DIFFERENT FORCES.

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                     KARMA-YOGA HAS SPECIALLY TO DEAL WITH THESE THREE FACTORS. BY TEACHING WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO EMPLOY THEM, IT HELPS US TO DO OUR WORK BETTER. HUMAN SOCIETY IS A GRADED ORGANIZATION.  WE ALL KNOW ABOUT MORALITY, AND WE ALL KNOW ABOUT DUTY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE FIND THAT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MORALITY VARIES GREATLY. WHAT IS REGARDED AS MORAL IN ONE COUNTRY MAY IN ANOTHER BE CONSIDERED PERFECTLY IMMORAL. FOR INSTANCE, IN ONE COUNTRY COUSINS MAY MARRY, IN ANOTHER, IT IS THOUGHT TO BE VERY IMMORAL, IN ONE, MEN MAY MARRY THEIR SISTERS-IN-LAW, IN ANOTHER, IT IS REGARDED AS IMMORAL, IN ONE COUNTRY PEOPLE MAY MARRY ONLY ONCE, IN ANOTHER, MANY TIMES, AND SO FORTH. SIMILARLY, IN ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF MORALITY, WE FIND THE STANDARD VARIES GREATLY - YET WE HAVE THE IDEA THAT THERE MUST BE A UNIVERSAL STANDARD OF MORALITY.

                     SO IT IS WITH DUTY. THE IDEA OF DUTY VARIES MUCH AMONG DIFFERENT NATIONS. IN ONE COUNTRY,  IF A MAN DOES NOT DO CERTAIN THINGS, PEOPLE WILL SAY HE HAS ACTED WRONGLY, WHILE IF DOES THOSE VERY THINGS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, PEOPLE WILL SAY THAT HE DID NOT ACT RIGHTLY - AND YET WE KNOW THAT THERE MUST BE SOME UNIVERSAL IDEA OF DUTY. IN THE SAME WAY THAT HE DID SOME UNIVERSAL IDEA OF DUTY. IN THE SAME WAY, ONE CLASS OF SOCIETY THINKS THAT CERTAIN THINGS ARE AMONG ITS DUTY, WHILE ANOTHER CLASS THINKS QUITE THE OPPOSITE AND WOULD BE HORRIFIED IF IT HAD TO DO THOSE THINGS. TWO WAYS ARE LEFT UPON TO US - THE WAY OF THE IGNORANT, WHO THINK THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO TRUTH AND THAT ALL THE REST ARE WRONG, AND THE WAY OF THE WISE, WHO ADMIT THAT, ACCORDING TO OUR MENTAL CONSTITUTION OR THE DIFFERENT PLANES OF EXISTENCE IN WHICH WE ARE, DUTY AND MORALITY MAY VARY. THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE GRADATIONS OF DUTY AND OF MORALITY - THAT THE DUTY OF ONE STATE OF LIFE , IN ONE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES, WILL NOT AND CANNOT BE THAT OF ANOTHER.

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                    TO ILLUSTRATE : ALL GREAT TEACHERS HAVE TAUGHT, "RESIST NOT EVIL". THAT NON-RESISTANCE IS THE HIGHEST MORAL IDEA. WE ALL KNOW THAT, IF A CERTAIN NUMBER OF US ATTEMPTED TO PUT THAT MAXIM FULLY INTO PRACTICE, THE WHOLE SOCIAL FABRIC WOULD FALL TO PIECES, THE WICKED WOULD TAKE POSSESSION OF OUR PROPERTIES AND OUR LIVES, AND WOULD DO WHATEVER THEY LIKED WITH US. EVEN IF ONLY ONE DAY OF SUCH NON-RESISTANCE WERE PRACTICED. IT WOULD LEAD TO DISASTER. YET, INTUITIVELY, IN OUR HEART OF HEARTS WE FEEL THE TRUTH OF THE TEACHING "RESIST NOT EVIL". THIS SEEMS TO US TO BE THE HIGHEST IDEAL, YET TO TEACH THIS DOCTRINE ONLY WOULD BE EQUIVALENT TO CONDEMNING A VAST PORTION OF MANKING. NOT ONLY SO, IT WOULD BE MAKING MEN FEEL THAT THEY WERE ALWAYS DOING WRONG, AND CAUSE IN THEM SCRUPLES OF CONSCIENCE IN ALL THEIR ACTION, IT WOULD WEAKEN THEM, AND THE CONSTANT SELF-DISSAPPROVAL WOULD BREED MORE VICE THAN ANY OTHER WEAKNESS WOULD. TO THE MAN WHO HAS BEGUN TO HATE HIMSELF THE GATE TO DEGENERATION HAS ALREADY OPENED, AND THE SAME IS TRUE OF A NATION.