Page 541 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
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Whatever act you do, do it in the thought “It is the Divine’s command and therefore it is my duty to do so”
Now if we dwell on the topic of the seminar, we are asked to feel that every action is to be done as the command of the Master. Here Master is essentially asking us to understand the doership concept. When we talk about doership, the first things that has come to my mind is the role clarity in what ever act that we perform. The person is same, but he simultaneously has several roles to play that we are all aware of. Role clarity is important. To get role clarity we need have Goal clarity of being just and balanced. The experiences of nothingness gives us a taste of balancedness, our true condition, which is very important to help us from the problem of undue involvement.
It therefore becomes necessary for one to develop Viveka ( Goal clarity). Lack of viveka blurs our understanding and we confuse our role in various activities. Viveka will not only give us the understanding that not only right action at right time is needed but right amount of action at right time is also very important. That means we can neither overdo nor under do any action which in one sense can be called as perfection in action. Then the effect of the action will not cast on us either a positive or negative impression.
Many times we find our interactions with others and willingness to any work is dictated by the fruits/results. This determines our interest and involvement in that particular work. We also try to discriminate or evaluate the work as good work or bad work, which is purely based on the amount of pleasure that we derive from it in the form of name, fame etc.
Every work that we do gives us some knowledge or awareness to our self and it also gives us certain enjoyment. Fulfillment of task itself may many times gives us certain amount of enjoyment. If some one
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