MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (10)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (10)

Swami Ashokananda

 

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I must say that after Sri Krishna, the one other great spiritual

teacher who dwelt on this path was Swami Vivekananda. His book

Karma-Yoga[1] is well known. Don't seek in that book literary

grace, or good organization of material, as if it were written

for literary purposes. If you had heard the great teachers like

Christ and Buddha, you probably would have found an infinite

number of mistakes, grammatical and otherwise, in their speech.

When these things were recorded by their disciples they edited

them. Disciples become exceedingly sensitive to any imperfection

in their teacher; so they began to edit the teacher and the

teacher's words, and by the time those words come down to you,

you have nice little flowing sentences. The disciples have paid

their debt to the teacher. But if you ever have the opportunity

of coming across the literal words of a great teacher, you should

never seek these things there - good grammar, good organization,

and so on. Try to understand what they are saying to you; these

are actually inspired words in a most literal sense.

 

[1] http://www.vedanta.com/getpage.cfm?file=titles/10000572.html&userid=74925223

 

(to be continued)