UNSELFISH SECRIFICE
There was quarrel between a pond and a river. The pond was preaching the
river” O dea , why are you giving all your water and wealth to the ocean;
please don’t squander your valuables on
the ocean. The Ocean is an ungrateful creature and needs it not. The ocean will
not change it’s nature ,he will remain salty and bitter . Keep all your treasure
with you ’don’t through pearls before the swine’. Now see, here the river was
told to care for the result and think about the consequences. But the river was
Vedanti she replied,” Failure and success are nothing to
me , I don’t bother about consequences and results.”
To work is my habit, I have to work because I love work; I am
working for work’s sake. My Soul my real Atman is energy. I am working to keep
in activity in my life. The river went on working. On the other hand Economic and
educated pond became dry in three four months; it became filthy, stagnant but
the river remained fresh and pure. Slowly and silently was water taken from the
surface of the ocean to refill the fountain head of the river. Monsoons and trade winds invisibly carried
water from ocean to kept the river source fresh for ever.
Like this, Vedanta requires
you not to follow the sophistic (dull) policy of the pond. It is small and
selfish pond that cares for the results. “What will become of me and my work?” Work just for the sake of work. Your work
should be your goal . This is the
meaning of freedom from desires which Sanatana /Vedanta/Hinduism preaches.
Expect nothing from others , worry not
about the consequences .Do not bother about favorable reviews of your work or
severe criticism at the same. This way you have to free yourself from desire;
need not to free yourself from work, instead free your self from restlessness.
“The most effective and
best cure/medicine for all sorts of distracting thoughts, passions and
temptations is WORK.”
The positive joy accompanies faithful work is a spark of Salvation. It
keeps you untainted (pure and clean) and one with Divinity(religion). This
happiness is the highest and surest reward for work. No reward or prize can be
more benign(lovable) or salubrious(decent) than the immediate joy which
accompanies earnest(sincere) action. Follow the action to realize the renunciation,
religion or worship it involves and be not led by the childish frivolities(nonsense)
it promises. Feel no responsibility, ask for no reward. People
say” First deserve and then desire.” But Vedanta says” Deserve only, no need of desiring”. “A stone that is fit for the wall will never
be found in the road”. If you deserve by powerful law of Nature or can say
by Devin law, everything will come to you. If a lamp is burning, the lamp
should go on burning, the lamp need not to invite moths(a insect like butterfly
attracts towards light). Moths will come to the lamp by themselves. Where there
is fresh spring people will come to it themselves. Those loves moonlight will come
out to enjoy the same when the moon will rise. So, work to realize the
nothingness of the body and the supreme reality of the true self. When you will
hang your personality and ego on the cross of labor , success will come to you
and there will be huge group of people to appreciate you. Society accepted
Christ only after He was crucified. ‘Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.’ NO seed can spring up and multiply without suffering
destruction to its form and appearance. So the second essential to success is
kill your little self, renunciation (reject desire for results) Mind it
‘renunciation does not mean asceticism only.
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