Attaining the Harmony of Success

[Guest guest]

Light and Love

Below is extract from article by William and Debra Miller "Attaining the

Harmony of Success", Indiatimes Spirituality , Section: the Basics, 17 December

2004.

When we allow our spiritual goals to subsume our career goals, we find true

harmony in life – a state where our inner values naturally align with our

worldly results.

 

If you ask people at work, “What does success mean to you?” most of them

would likely say things like “making money”, “getting promotions”, or “having

what I want”. But do these ‘symbols’ of success make for a truly harmonious

life and career, especially from a spiritual point of view?

 

What about the feeling that your job is meaningful and that it makes a

difference to customers and society? What about the feeling that you’re growing

and learning through your work – not only in job skills but also spiritually?

 

As we look back on our own careers and think about the people and leaders

we’ve met and interviewed along the way, we’ve found that “success” takes on an

expanded meaning when it emerges from our spiritual view of life. For example,

the spiritual scriptures of India dwell upon this notion by describing four

goals of “success” in life:

 

Dharma : Living in consonance with creation and society

 

Artha : Generating wealth for oneself and others (the wealth of good

education, health, character and material well-being)

 

Kama : Satisfying basic desires (a life of comfort, health, enjoyment and

respect for one’s family and community)

 

Moksha : Attaining spiritual fulfilment or liberation

 

While we look forward to delving more deeply into each of these goals in

future articles, we were inspired by the words of Sathya Sai Baba, a universal

spiritual teacher, when he described how we can integrate all four goals of

life in order to reap the feeling of true harmony and success:

 

"Man should earn wealth through right means, and direct desires towards

spiritual liberation. But man ignores righteousness and liberation and

struggles to direct desires towards wealth. His sense of values has become

topsy-turvy. Let righteousness dominate wealth, and liberation dominate worldly

desire. Then your life will be a success."

 

But, we wondered, what does it look like to integrate these four goals from

a spiritual point of view and in a practical, day-to-day way? The executives

we’ve interviewed gave answers that had a distinctly personal perspective – one

that highlights dharma and moksha in some way and brings harmony to their busy

careers.

 

So, ask yourself: “From my spiritual view of life, how can I bring the four

goals of life into harmony as I strive for success in my work?

 

Source: http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/articleshow/961846.cms

 

Namaste - Reet

[Guest guest]

======

"Man should earn wealth through right means, and direct desires towards

spiritual liberation. But man ignores righteousness and liberation and

struggles to direct desires towards wealth. His sense of values has become

topsy-turvy. Let righteousness dominate wealth, and liberation dominate worldly

desire. Then your life will be a success"-

On going through the above teaching for achievement of real success

in the life,--------------------------

Let us pray our Baba to purify our each & every activity of life and

sanctify our thoughts & vision, so that we can achieve what actually

Sai expects & desires from us.Then Baba will lead us in our efforts

for the success in life.

Jai Sai Ram.

With Sai Love,

S.L.Gupta,

Kanpur

======

Reet <reet.priiman (AT) neti (DOT) ee> wrote:

Light and Love

Below is extract from article by William and Debra Miller "Attaining the

Harmony of Success", Indiatimes Spirituality , Section: the Basics, 17 December

2004.