INTRODUCTION
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People ask, 'Swamiji, you say that life is purposeless. Then I may as well just lie down and relax. Who will give me food? Who will pay my bills?' When Swamiji says life is purposeless, he is not asking you to just lie down and relax in your house. All he is saying is, 'Let your body and mind work without disturbing your inner space of completion. You don't have to sell your inner bliss to have outer comforts.'
YOUR BODY AND MIND KNOW
THE RIGHT THING TO DO BY
THEIR VERY NATURE
The problem is that you never trust
your body and mind. You always
trust your ego and it finally dumps
you! Be very clear, your body and
mind will do their work. All you
need to do is keep quiet and relax
from your ego.
KARMA YOGi WORKS WiTH COURAGE OF AUTHENTiCiTY
Śrī Kṛṣṇa says, ‘A karma yogi, one who lives the path of authenticity in action, is a man who relaxes into nitya ānanda (eternal bliss) and does his work from the space of completion.’
You always think, ‘If I relax mentally
thinking life is purposeless, how will I
know what is right and what is wrong?
How will I finish my work on time?’
When you worry about what is right
and what is wrong, you will not make
small mistakes, you will commit big
blunders..
TAKING THE RiSK AND JUMPiNG iNTO THE SPACE OF COMPLETiON, AND LiViNG WiTHOUT WORRY AND SELF-DOUBT iS WHAT I CALL COURAGE OF AUTHENTiCiTY, THE COURAGE TO ENTER SPiRiTUAL LiFE
When you take the jump, you will naturally make some small mistakes.
Don't worry about them. Putting up with that mistake is what is caled penance, tapas. Penance is nothing but accepting and completing with the small mistakes you make and restoring your integrity and authenticity when the conscious transition happens in your being.
When you move from worry to bliss, when you move from falsehood to truth, when you move from incompletion to completion, you will make a few mistakes. You will fall and rise just like a baby learning to walk. When babies learn to walk, they always fall the first few times.
But just because of that, can you say they should never walk? Even if they make one or two small mistakes, they have to stand up and start walking.
