MASTER: "Perform your duties in an unselfish spirit. … …
Always try to perform your duties without desiring any result."
M: "Yes, sir. But may I know if one can realize God while performing one's duties? Can 'Rama' and 'desire' coexist? The other day I read in a Hindi couplet: 'Where Rama is, there desire cannot be; where desire is, there Rama cannot be.' "
MASTER: "All, without exception, perform work. Even to chant the name and glories of God is work, as is the meditation of the non-dualist on 'I am He'. Breathing is also an activity.
There is no way of renouncing work altogether. So do your work, but surrender the result to God."
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 113-14
(August 24, 1882)
Always try to perform your duties without desiring any result."
M: "Yes, sir. But may I know if one can realize God while performing one's duties? Can 'Rama' and 'desire' coexist? The other day I read in a Hindi couplet: 'Where Rama is, there desire cannot be; where desire is, there Rama cannot be.' "
MASTER: "All, without exception, perform work. Even to chant the name and glories of God is work, as is the meditation of the non-dualist on 'I am He'. Breathing is also an activity.
There is no way of renouncing work altogether. So do your work, but surrender the result to God."
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 113-14
(August 24, 1882)
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