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The True Spirit of Work

The spirit & attitude
I do not mean by work action done in the ego and the igno-
rance, for the satisfaction of the ego and in the drive of rajasic
desire. There can be no Karmayoga without the will to get rid of
ego, rajas and desire, which are the seals of ignorance.
I do not mean philanthropy or the service of humanity or all
the rest of the things — moral or idealistic — which the mind of
man substitutes for the deeper truth of works.
I mean by work action done for the Divine and more and
more in union with the Divine — for the Divine alone and noth-
ing else. Naturally that is not easy at the beginning, any more
than deep meditation and luminous knowledge are easy or
even true love and bhakti are easy. But like the others it has to
be begun in the right spirit and attitude, with the right will in
you, then all the rest will come.
Works done in this spirit are quite as effective as bhakti or
contemplation. One gets by the rejection of desire, rajas and
ego a quietude and purity into which the Peace ineffable can
descend; one gets by the dedication of one’s will to the Divine,
by the merging of one’s will in the Divine Will the death of ego
and the enlarging into the cosmic consciousness or else the
uplifting into what is above the cosmic; one experiences the
separation of Purusha from Prakriti and is liberated from the
shackles of the outer nature; one becomes aware of one’s inner
being and feels the outer as an instrument; one feels the uni-
versal Force doing one’s works and the Self or Purusha watch-
ing or witness but free; one feels all one’s works taken from
one and done by the universal or the supreme Mother or by
the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart.
By constant reference of all one’s will and works to the Divine,

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