Dedicated Action

Swami Chinmayananda

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Thursday, October 1, 2009, 10:11

Time and actions dedicated at the altar of the Lord, do not leave their foot-prints of past memories to tie down the individual to brood, to worry, to vegetate.

Time hangs on for those who act with motives to satiate their selfish passions, to fulfill their ego-centric desires. And the actions, done with selfish ends throw the tar of their impressions on the slabs of memories, and thus char the beauty and mar the peace of the Self.

Memories breed desires, desires create agitations, agitations express themselves in frantic activities. Never a man of selfishness is quite; he is bound by time.

Now he regrets for what he has done and failed to do in the past, now he is worried over the things that he wants to do in the future. Alas, how unwittingly the sacred NOW is frittered away in his meaningless wandering in the front and back courtyards of time!

The secret vein of energy that runs in every one of us is struck, not through pills and elixirs but through dedicated actions.

Selfish actions drain our energy. Actions dedicated unto the feet of the Lord, or for the matter of that, unto any higher cause, generate energy and ginger up enthusiasm in man.

About the author

Swami Chinmayananda

Swami Chinmayananda the great master's lectures were an outpour of wisdom. He introduced the Geetha Gnana Yagna. He wrote a lot of books on spirituality, commentaries to Vedantic texts, children books etc. He then started spreading His teachings globally.....