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Right Attitude in Work
The spiritual effectivity of work of course depends on the
inner attitude. What is important is the spirit of offering put
into the work. If one can in addition remember the Mother in
the work or through a certain concentration feel the Mother’s
presence or force sustaining or doing the work, that carries the
spiritual effectivity still farther. But even if one cannot in mo-
ments of clouding, depression or struggle do these things, yet
there can be behind a love or bhakti which was the original mo-
tive power of the work and that can remain behind the cloud
and reemerge like the sun after dark periods. All sadhana is like
that and it is why one should not be discouraged by the dark
moments, but realise that the original urge is there and that
therefore the dark moments are only an episode in the journey
which will lead to greater progress when they are once over.
CWSA 29: 242

To get rid of ego-centricity
To be impersonal, generally, is not to be ego-centric, not to
regard things from the point of view of how they affect oneself,
— but to see what things are in themselves, to judge impartially,
to do what is demanded by the purpose of things or by the will
of the Master of things, not by one’s own personal point of view
or egoistic interest or ego-formed idea or feeling. In work it is
to do what is best for the work, without regard to one’s own
prestige or convenience, not to regard the work as one’s own
but as the Mother’s, to do it according to rule, discipline, imper-
sonal arrangement, even if conditions are not favourable to do
the best according to the conditions etc. etc. The impersonal
worker puts his best capacity, zeal, industry into the work, but
not his personal ambitions, vanity, passions. He has always
something in view that is greater than his little personality and

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