MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (5)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (5)

Swami Ashokananda

 

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I understand that there is a loophole in that argument. You could counter it by

saying, 'Do you not suggest, then, that we should become lazy and not make a

determined effort ?' No, I don't suggest that. I know that if you could take the

view that henceforth all you have to do is devote yourself to God, that in all

the future you have nothing else to do, then there would come a certain

serenity

of mind. Sri Ramakrishna used to say that a crow once sat on the mast of an

ocean-going ship. The ship left port and went far out to sea, but the crow

was not aware of this fact. When it noticed that the sun was about to go down,

it thought it must find a nice roost, and it began to fly. But by that time the

ship was so far from shore that the crow couldn't find any land. It had to come

back to the mast. It rested a little, then it went in another direction - again

no land. After it had flown in all directions and not found any land, it came

and sat on the mast quietly and calmly. Mind reaches that condition; by and by

a

realization comes to our hearts that there is nothing to gain in the whole

universe

except God, and then impatience goes away.

 

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