Everything Is Worship-Part II

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Ramana says everything is worship! How is one 'to be in the world but not of it'? It is of utmost importance to know this if Ramana's teachings are to have practical relevance for us. God knows that for most of us life gives no respite, no time for quiet contemplation, no time to just relax doing nothing, to be free, just free.

If we are to bridge the gap between endless duties and activities and the search for truth, what should we do? How are we to achieve this and break the idea that these two are poles apart and it is therefore impossible to bridge the gap?

The first thing to forget is the notion that it is difficult. Such thoughts would be 'the surest way of handicapping oneself', for they are not true. The next point to remember is our essential nature which is one of uncontaminated bliss. Then we have the need for making the most of whatever time we can manage for meditation. Let it be just five or ten minutes. It has to be used fully, to the hilt. The duration is not of such consequence, for intense meditation, intense plunge within will do its work.

What will the intense plunge do one may ask? To begin with gradually, work would not come in the way of meditation. Then the time given to meditation would generate the inner current, a special inner feeling of peace which will be the substratum throughout the day. Action would be in this atmosphere, in this enveloping mood of inner silence which activity, whatever it may be, is unable to disturb. Jobs get done better, for the mind is cool, undistracted and on the job all the time.