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even in the midst of action or of any kind of work or all kinds of
work demanded from us by the Divine. If it were not so, there
would not have been great spiritual men like Janaka or Vidura in
India and even there would have been no Krishna or else Krishna
would have been not the Lord of Brindavan and Mathura and
Dwarka or a prince and warrior or the charioteer of Kurukshetra,
but only one more great anchorite. The Indian scriptures and
Indian tradition, in the Mahabharata and elsewhere, make room
both for the spirituality of the renunciation of life and for the
spiritual life of action. One cannot say that one only is the In-
dian tradition and that the acceptance of life and works of all
kinds, sarvakarmDKi. is un-Indian, European or Western and un-
spiritual.
CWSA 29: 250
Remembering the Divine in Work
It is not at first easy to remember the presence in work; but
if one revives the sense of the presence immediately after the
work is over it is all right. In time the sense of the presence will
become automatic even in work.
CWSA 29: 258-59

Thinking about Work
Think of your work only when it is being done, not before
and not after.
Do not let your mind go back on a work that is finished. It
belongs to the past and all rehandling of it is a waste of power.
Do not let your mind labour in anticipation on a work that
has to be done. The Power that acts in you will see to it at its
own time.
These two habits of the mind belong to a past function-
ing that the transforming Force is pressing to remove and the
physical mind’s persistence in them is the cause of your strain

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