| Actions are unavoidable. We have to work. We can't get rid of it. Breathing
is action. Heart beat is action. Pulsation is action. Sleeping is action;
dying too is an activity. And to live, we do earn, engaging ourselves in
some work.
Work is of three types. Work done as a drudgery, work done for a particular
fruit and work done as worship.
There are three stone cutters employed in the construction work of a
temple.
The first worker found it to be monotonous and boring. Since he could
not get a more comfortable and interesting job of white collar, he took
to the laborious job of cutting the stones. He curses his stars. He is
the most miserable person.
The second cutter is a professional, working for wages. If he is offered
better emoluments, he is willing to do even a harder work. For him there
is no love in the work he does. He works only for the sake of wages. He
wants to do any work if it gets him higher wages.
The third one does his work as worship. He is not worried of the strain
involved; nor does he think of the fruit of his labour. He cuts the stone
happily with a grateful heart, for he is blessed with an opportunity to
do a divine work.
Every work is holy. Any work can be rendered as an offering.
Doctors and engineers, teachers and officers, tailors and artisans, scholars
and sweepers - all can do their respective jobs as an offering to God.
When skill is coupled with unselfish service, it becomes worship.
May we by God's grace work with love as an offering. Work is Worship.
And that is karma yoga. |
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