MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (7)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (7)

Swami Ashokananda

 

(continued)

 

Well, as I said, most religions take the view that meditation, prayer, worship,

devotional singing, and similar things are valid spiritual practices. There

have,

however been a few religious teachers who have added more practices to these

generally recognized ones. I have specifically in mind in this connection Sri

Krishna

and Swami Vivekananda, both of whom taught karma yoga as equally valid.

Everybody

thinks, I know, that karma yoga, the path of action, is not really a very

high-class

spiritual practice. If I tell someone to practise karma yoga, he will think,

'The

swami doesn't believe I can meditate; that is why he is asking me to do that. I

will

show him!'. And he shows me; _really_ he shows me - but not in the way he

thought he

would show me. You see, no one thinks karma yoga is really a spiritual practice.

 

(to be continued)