Love’s labour can never be lost : 5.

5.

The great master, Swami Chinmayananda, said it beautifully: “Everyone with knowledge exerts, sweats and toils… But only a few succeed in life. They generally forget that the mind is the ‘doer’ in us, and the body is but our tool. Learn to bring your mind to where your hands are working, then see the results. Actions become excellent, and success is the tribute life pays to excellence”.

Such seva not only enriches the performer materially and spiritually, it also benefits many around. The wise have said: “That alone is living by which many others live”. This is called the yagna spirit in the Bhagavad Gita — the spirit of sharing.

The whole universe is the expression of this giving. The sun gloriously burns to give warmth and light, the ocean sacrifices itself to become vapour, the clouds condense into rain and gushes into streams to quench the parched earth and the earth in joy tears open its breast to nourish the world with abundance… Thus the universe resolves as adoration to the universal spirit and every action becomes worship.

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Swami Chinmayananda
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