MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (9)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (9)

Swami Ashokananda

 

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As a matter of fact, you will find that even when teachers do not

want to put forth their views in an extremely philosophical form,

almost all of them will tell you, 'Yes, practise some action:

do good deeds, worship the Lord, go on pilgrimages, serve holy

people, do some noble work, and so on. Your mind will be

purified and devotion will grow in your heart and through that

eventually you will learn how to meditate, and in meditation

you will be able to realize God.'

But suppose you do not care about God or about meditating on

Him. Is there any possibility of your attaining to the truth ?

If we read the Gita itself, without being influenced by the

interpretations of the commentators, we find it clearly stated

that by the performance of action _alone_ one is able to realize

the highest. Sri Krishna says, 'By action alone Janaka and others

attained to the truth, attained to Me.'[1] Of course the interpreters

at once take hold of that and put a little pressure here and a

little pressure there, and you find it is no longer what is stated

in the Gita.

 

[1] Bhagavad-Gita 3:20

 

(to be continued)