Work - The Secret of Success Without work we can never succeed. A lazy man is bound to die in the “struggle for existence” , he cannot live. ‘Hammer on ! Hammer on!’ is the first key to success .My friends without work we can never achieve success. Once somebody asked Swami Ram Teerath that ‘how can I reconcile continuous labor with the unaffected ,impersonal pure nature of Self or Atman as demonstrated by Vedanta?’ This particular concept of Vedanta is responsible for laziness and inaction as it ask us to inculcate the realization of rest and peace of Divine Self and by preaching renunciation(rejection)or Sanyasa . Swami ji replied at once that this objection is due to the terrible misunderstanding of the nature of work or renunciation. Swami ji explained “What is work?” ‘Intense work ,according to Vadanta, is rest. Here is a paradoxical statement, “work is rest”. That is what Vedanta preaches. The body works automatically and the mind is absorbed...