MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (41)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (41)

Swami Ashokananda

 

Sri Krishna said:

'samam psayan hi sarvatra samvasthitam isvaram

na hinastyatmanatmanam tato yati param gatim'

(Bhagavad Gita 13.28)

'When one perceives the same God equally existing in every being

then he does not hate himself by himself and he attains to the

highest condition.' And again he said: suni caiva svapake ca

panditah samadarsinah (Bhagavad Gita 5.18) - 'The wise are same-

sighted; whether in a pandit, an untouchable, a dog, a cow,

or any other thing they see the same Being everywhere.'

When you begin to think this way, you find your life has become

meditative. Behind your thoughts and your actions, even your furious

activity, there is a sense of calmness, a sense of serenity and depth,

in which you truly exist. Just as the profound depths of a lake may

remain absolutely calm when its surface is rippled, in the same way

you will begin to discover in yourself a deep calm and serene Being,

though on the surface there may be incessant activity. And then that

activity becomes colored by the consciousness of your own deep being,

which you cannot distinguish from Divinity itself. When you have

become even slightly conscious of this fact, you have become

transformed. Then, whether you are sitting calmly or are furiously

active, your mind is in the deeps. I think that is most wonderful.

Here is my God. If you say, 'This God doesn't seem very exciting,

all this activity and these crowds of people', ah, on the surface

it is not exciting, but go a little deeper, and you will find it is

God Himself, nothing but God Himself.