Action without motive does not bind - from Bhagavadgita

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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste.

 

"tasmAd asaktaH satataM kAryaM karma samAcara,

asakto hy Acaran karma param Apnoti puruSaH"

 

"Therefore, constantly PERFORM your obligatory duty WITHOUT

ATTACHMENT;

for doing duty WITHOUT ATTACHMENT man verily OBTAINS the Supreme."

(3.19)

 

ABSENCE of attachment leads to the PACIFICATION of the MIND.

Work and rest go on side by side.

Mind made CALM this way becomes CAPABLE of GRASPING Self.

 

 

'How are we to RECONCILE the worldly ENTANGLEMENTS and engagements

with spiritual DETACHMENT?

 

See how the carpenter's housewife busies herself with all and sundry.

With one hand she pushes the paddy to be ponded in the mortar;

with the other hand she embraces and suckles her baby.

At the same time she bargains with the customer for the flattened

rice.

In the midst of all thes activities her MIND is ON the HAND pushing

the paddy lest the pestle should hurt it.

Likewise do your worldly ACTIVITIES; but in the MIDST of them KEEP

the MIND FIXED on the Lord.

Deviate NOT on any account from Godly PATH.

 

- Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

 

"KarmaNai 'va hi samsiddhim AsthitA janakAdayaH,

loka sangraham evA 'pi saMpazyan kartum arhasi"

 

"King Janaka and other great souls indeed achieved PERFECTION by

ACTION without ATTACHMENT. Having an eye to the guidance of seekers

you SHOULD also PERFORM action similarly." (3.20)

 

 

"mayi sarvANI karmANI saMnyasyA 'dhyAtma cetasA,

nirAzIr nirmamo bhUtvA yudhyasva vigata jvaraH"

 

(Gita 3.30)

 

"SURRENDERING ALL actions to Me,

with your THOUGHTS resting on Self,

FREED from HOPE and SELFISH ATTACHMENT

and CURED of MENTAL fever,

ENGAGE in battle.

 

'Iswara, the Lord of the universe smiles on TWO derisory occasions.

When the son is sinking on his death bed, the doctor assures the

desponding mother, "Don't be afraid; I'm here to save your son."

 

This is the first occasion on which God is moved to smile.

 

Two brothers survey and share a land saying, "That portion is yours

and this is mine."

 

This is the second occasion on which the Lord smiles.

 

- Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!