The action of a sattvic person drops off automatically. He can not work even if he tries to; the Lord does not allow him to work. It is just as when a young wife advances in pregnancy. She is given less and less work to do; and when the child is born, she gives up household work altogether and is busied exclusively with the infant.
But an ordinary person must try to do his duties with detachment, depending on the Lord, like the maidservant who does everything for her master, knowing in her heart that her home is elsewhere. This is known as karma-yoga.
As far as possible one should take the name of the Lord and meditate on Him while discharging one’s everyday duties in an unattached way.
- Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play, P362
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