MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (33)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (33)

Swami Ashokananda

 

If you take a common-sense view of the situation, can you escape

the fact that you have to give a great deal of time and attention to

other human beings ? In one form or another, you will have to do it.

Either you do it from the depth of your own spiritual consciousness,

or you do it under the compulsion of law. Why will you have to do it ?

Your country is close-knit. You don't like your children to grow up

feeling that they are not involved with their fellow beings. You have

to instil into the minds of your children as they grow that they owe

duties to their neighbours. You may call it 'neighbourliness', but the

word neighbour is sometimes interpreted in such broad terms that it loses

its specific meaning and comes to mean all men, if not also

extraterrestrial beings, who are supposed to come and annoy us with their

saucers and things like that. You see, that is where your neighbourliness

has extended. Can you ever think of people in this age saying, 'Oh, forget

the whole thing, just go and contemplate and meditate and don't bother

about others.' To a few select individuals you might give this advice,

but not to the generality of people.