Dharma in work

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Dharma in work

He should be lost in his job when he is on job. He shouldn’t feel hunger, thirst or any discomfort in the body as he is on job. The job should become him. Just doing the job should give ‘joy’ so unparalleled in his life that any returns should look ‘immaterial’ to him. The returns that he receives for his job should be incidental to his work. He shouldn’t though work with returns in mind. Just doing the job completes his returns. And hence he never complains of ‘less returns’ or ‘no returns’ for his job. His finesse increases over the years, his concentration on job becoming more and more and more intense; his workmanship effortless he goes on to be a reflection of ‘Excellence’ is ‘dharma’. That earned through sub-par work is ‘dharma’.

                                              

If you don’t want to be bound by your ‘karma’, then work towards excellence. When you desire to be ‘the best’, you compete with others and generate all negative emotions like envy, hatred, anger.

But when you work towards excellence without expecting results not only you enjoy your work but also heal your work but also heal your karma as you work. Your work becomes your worship!

Make work your devotion. You transcend pain and suffering that comes through expectation from your job. Your work becomes your ‘Dharma’.

Passion that you put in work makes it your love. And any work done with love is play. And when you are playing you don’t think of taking a break or vacation. Because then your job is already your play!

If you are tired of your job, need a break, complain about boss, pay etc look within and find out what is missing in that. Missing not by way of returns in job! But in the way you relate with your job.

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Questions answered : 

• How to earn more / increase your earnings /salary?
• How come some people become rich while I remain the same through years? What is the reason behind it?
• What is karma yog?

Points to be understood and applied to benefit :

• Connection between passion for work and success
• how to make your job your play
• When you are doing the job you love, then make your job your love.
• What you give to your job is what job gives back to you
• Work without expectation and its effect on self, life and success
• If wealth is lost, nothing is lost, if health is lost something is lost, if character is lost everything is lost.

.........Then, one day, suddenly Satan came to visit him. It said “I’ve heart of this impossible task that the God has set you on. He’s a sadist. He wants to see you suffer – be a failure. He enjoys it. Anybody can see that this huge boulder can’t be moved by any man. Yet he set you on this task. Trust me. Drop it and move on with life.”

Man didn’t listen to the Satan and kept doing his work. After every few weeks Satan would come to tell him and convince him on the futility of the job undertaken and pleading him to let go of it.

Years passed by. Doubt started entering man’s thought. It slowly built up. It developed into anger, then into anger on God and finally at the end of 20 years he quit with frustration saying “God, you had nothing to give me. You fooled me. There’s no door behind that boulder.

God appeared then – after full 20 years. He smiled and said, “Son, move. Let me move the boulder for you.” And He said “MOVE” and the boulder moved. And behold! Behind it was a beautiful golden door. But, man was not looking at it. He was angry and it came out in words ”you wanted m\to make me feel little – so, you gave me a task that I could never do – however hard I tried! You moved it with a word and yet chose to make me suffer hard work for a whole of 20 years. You are a Sadist. You love to see me suffer my failure. I hate you!”

God didn’t say a word. He just held the hand of that man, took him to face a mirror and said “Look, inside the mirror. What do you see?”

Man said “Myself and You”.

God smiled and said “look again closely at yourself. Look at your big broad shoulders. Look at your physique. Look at the strong muscles. Where is the puny man who set to work on my task? Where did this handsome, strong, well-built man come from? This man came from the struggle that you went through while trying to move the boulder. Your hard work shows on your body. It has made you a strong man. How could you get it without having such a task as this?”

Man cried out of job and thanked God profusely.

“Likewise, every struggle, challenge in life is thrown at you to create a situation that can bring out our potential and let us experience our greater self. They are ‘problems’ as long as you are afraid of failure. Creative thinking and the right approach can see them as ‘opportunities’ wrapped up differently. As rightly said “What’s life if full of care?” said my Guru.

That set me thinking and I need a little more time to ponder on it. I am sure even you need it , so let’s take a break and meet in next post………