Sudheendra Kulkarni quotes Swami Ranganathanandaji

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Sudheendra Kulkarni quotes Swami Ranganathanandaji:

 

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I wish to share two gems of wisdom with readers of this column. The first is from Swami Ranganathananda, one of the greatest sages of modern India. Ironically, most Indians heard about him during the recent controversy surrounding L K Advani’s comments on Jinnah. But his voluminous writings on diverse issues are a must-read for anybody who wishes to work for a better India.

Take this piece from a lecture on citizenship. ‘‘No work is big or small, our attitude makes it so. If you do a clerk’s work with a clerk’s mind, both the work and the worker remain small. But if you do the same work with the mindset of a citizen, both become great. Similarly, a teacher working in a remote corner of India, thinking of himself as a low-paid employee, reduces himself to an inconsequential individual. But if he develops the attitude of a citizen, he uplifts himself to the status of a nation-builder and invests his work with great significance and meaning. You are free to make your work and yourself small; you are also free to make both big. It all depends on your attitude, on your philosophy of work. We have to achieve an intrinsic bigness in ourselves, and impart that bigness to all the functions that we perform.’’

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