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MURUGA SARANAM

 

Though we are all on the Bhakthi Marga, some knowledge and practice of

this Karma Yoga as described by Swami Vivekananda can open our mind in

the worldly life and help us.

 

MURUGA SARANAM

 

With Best Regards

Meyyappan S

 

 

> Work! Be unattached!

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> (Excerpts from a speech delivered in California, on April 1, 1900)

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> - By H.H. Swami Vivekananda

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> How to attain purity living this life? Shall we all go to the forest caves?

What good would it do? If the mind is not under control, it is no use living in

a cave because the same mind will bring all disturbances there. We will find

twenty devils in the cave because all the devils are in the mind. If the mind is

under control, we can have the cave anywhere, wherever we are.

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> It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our

thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world

is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in

this world..that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is

good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are not

understanding it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!...Whenever

we are tempted to say that the world is going to the dogs, we ought to analyse

ourselves, and we shall find that we have lost the faculty of seeing things as

they are.

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> Work day and night! ''Behold, I am the Lord of the Universe. I have no duty.

Every duty is bondage. But I work for work's sake. If I ceased to work for a

minute, there would be chaos (Gita, III. 22-23). So do thou work, without any

idea of duty..

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> This world is a play. You are His playmates. Go on and work, without any

sorrow, without any misery! See His play in the slums, in the saloons! Work to

lift people! Not that they are vile or degraded; Krishna does not say that.

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> Do you know why so little good work is done? My lady goes to the slums...She

gives a few ducats and says, '' My poor men, take that and be happy!''..Or my

fine woman, walking through the street, sees a poor fellow and throws him five

cents. Think of the blasphemy of it! Blessed are we that the Lord has given us

His teaching in your own Testament. Jesus says, ''Inasmuch as ye have done it

unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' It is blasphemy

to think that you can help anyone. First root out this idea of helping, and then

go to worship. God's children are your Master's children. And children are but

different forms of the father. You are His servant..Serve the living God! God

comes to you in the blind, in the halt, in the poor, in the weak, in the

diabolical. What glorious chance for you to worship! The moment you think you

are ''helping'', you undo the whole thing and degrade yourself. Knowing this,

work. ''What follows?'' you say. You do not get that heartbreak, that awful

misery...Then work is no more slavery. It becomes a play, and joy itself..Work!

Be unattached! That is the whole secret. If you get attached, you become

miserable..

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> With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says

harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are

one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else,

because everything else is unreal. Do nothing with the idea of ''mine''. Duty

for duty's sake; work for work's sake. What is that to you? You stand aside.

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> When we come to that non-attachment, then we can understand the marvelous

mystery of the universe; how it is intense activity and vibration, and at the

same time the intensest peace and calm; how it is work every moment and rest

every moment. That is the mystery of the universe-the impersonal and personal

in one, the infinite and finite in one. Then we shall find the secret. ''He who

finds in the midst of intense activity the greatest rest, and in the midst of

the greatest rest intense activity, he has become a Yogi (Gita, IV. 18)''. He

alone is a real worker, none else. We do little work and break ourselves. Why?

We become attached to that work. If we do not become attached, side by side with

it we have infinite rest...

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> Om Tat Sat

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