Profit Motive-Part II

Swami Chinmayananda

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Friday, June 5, 2009, 10:24

We are not able to discover this ideal motivation in our work programme only because of our ego and ego-centric, selfish desires. To satisfy ego we run after cheap achievements, immediate successes, or crave to gain other's recognition, etc. In order to fulfill our selfish desires we grow anxious of our future gains, profits- to-come, and get very restless in our efforts to grab, to acquire, to possess, to embrace and to enjoy the objects of our desires. These anxieties and lesser motives dissipate our mental vitality and in our actual job-in-hand we bring but our fatigued and exhausted mind.

If the work undertaken itself is the spring of our inspiration then we conserve our mental powers and they get channelled into the job-in hand. Success become sure and we enjoy an "unearned income", in terms of an endless inner joy and ever-growing sense of fulfillment; the work and its fatigue enrich our life. In fact, to function with selfish motives is to work with your hand tied behind. Your progress can only be slow and extremely exhausting as you will be always dragging a lengthening chain of painful memories and fearful anxieties.

Choose the work dictated by the circumstances, and ordered by your special talent. Why waste your time in life by striving in some field for which you have neither the talent nor any taste. Yet, very many of us do get stuck to an unpleasant work-field and, cowards as we are, we dare not leave such fields for other deserving people, and choose a pleasanter field suited to our inner inclinations. Wait patiently with eyes open for better and more conducive opportunity. Keep on polishing your inherent talents, even when you are working in an unconducive field which is now readily available.

Without right motivation there is no gin in one's work. A goal or an idea must be there steadily inspiring us to put forth our best efforts continuously. We draw our guts and strength, our ability to cope up with all threatening situations, the inspiration to work consistently until the goal is achieved - all from our steady inspiring vision of our goal. Higher the goal we see for ourselves greater we exploit our own abilities and talents. The more selfless we are, and more service oriented be our ideal, the larger the flood of success that flows out of us.

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.....