"Go ahead and do the job with full attention"

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Kunju Swami narrated the following:

 

"Sri Bhagavan used to go into the kitchen by 4 a.m. and start cutting

vegetables;

one or two of us would also join and help.

Sometime the amount of vegetabels used to startle us. Bhagavan managed to cut

much more and more quickly than the rest of us.

At such times we would look up at the clock in our impatience to finish the job

and

try and have another nap.

 

Bhagavan would sense our impatience and say:

'Why do you look at the clock?'

We tried to bluff Bhagavan saying;

'If only we could complete the work before 5, we could meditate for an hour.'

 

Bhagavan would mildly retort:

'The allotted work has to be completed in time. Other thoughts are obstacles,

not the amount of work. Doing the allotted work in time is itself meditation.

Go ahead and do the job with full attention.'

Sri Bhagavan thus taught us the importance of right, honest work."

 

(V. Ganesan: Moments Remembered, p. 107f)