LIGHT ON THE PATH - 34 : KILL OUT AMBITION - Work as those work who are ambitious - 14

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 34 🌹

🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 3 - THE FIRST RULE

🌻 KILL OUT AMBITION - Work as those work who are ambitious - 14 🌻

156. The Lord works perfectly so that the world may go on. We should, then, work in the same spirit. We must work better than the best worldly man, because our motive is that of service to God and man, and not our own gain.

We will work for the cause of humanity. We will not run about to find activity for the sake of being active. Many men work thus for the enjoyment of action, because unless they are busy they do not feel alive, but are bored.

That condition is one very far removed from the man who is content in the Self. He is never bored, never searching for an outlet in activity.

157. He works because it is his duty, and has no desire for activity when there is no duty. Thus he realizes inaction in action. In the fourth discourse of the Gita, Shri Krishna remarks on action, wrong action and inaction:

158. “What is action, what inaction?” Even the wise are herein perplexed. Therefore I will declare to thee the action by knowing which thou shalt be loosed from evil.

159. It is needful to discriminate action, to discriminate unlawful action, and to discriminate inaction; mysterious, is the path of action.

160. He who seeth inaction in action, and action in inaction, he is wise among men, he is harmonious even while performing all action.

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21 Nov 2020