WORK AND IT'S SECRET

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WORK AND IT's SECRET -- Swami Vivekananda

 

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it

will come back to you but multiplied a thousand fold but the attention

must not be on that. Yet have the power to give: give, and there it

ends. Learn that the whole of life is giving, that nature will force

you to give. So give willingly. Sooner or later you will have to give

up. You come into life to accumulate. With clenched hands you want to

take. But nature puts a hand on your throat and makes your hands open.

Whether you will it or not, you have to give. The moment you say, " I

will not " . the blow comes; you are hurt. None is there but will be

compelled, in the long run, to give everything. And the more one

struggles against this law, the more miserable one feels. It is

because we dare not give, because we are not resigned enough to accede

to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable. The forest is

gone, but we get heat in return. The sun is taking up water from the

ocean, to return it in showers. You are a machine for taking and

giving: you take, in order to give. Ask, therefore, nothing in return;

but the more you give, the more will come to you. The quicker it will

be filled up by the external air; and if you close all the doors and

every aperture, that which is within will remain, but that which is

outside will never come in, and that which is within will stagnate,

degenerate, and become poisoned. Be as the river that is continually

emptying itself into the ocean and is continually filling up again.

Bar not the exit into the ocean. The moment you do that, death seizes you.