Guest guest Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 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! > > (Excerpts from a speech delivered in California, on April 1, 1900) > > - By H.H. Swami Vivekananda > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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.. > > > > 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. > > > > 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.. > > > > 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. > > > > 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... > > > > Om Tat Sat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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