Monday, March 28, 2016

How you become motivated to do your duty



We all work for our existence and survival. We shoulder various responsibilities related to our family, relatives and friends. We are employed in any organization to do various techno-commercial activities and against the same, we get a paycheck. But if you don’t get any benefit, automatically your desire to do work ceases. Have you ever thought what motivates you to do  the work? Can you realize why a pigeon sounds so much sitting on the balcony of the window?  Can you wonder why a dog barks when he/ she encounters any danger?  Do they have a motive or just a selfish end?  What is the reason of your taking various actions during the course of the day?  Is it simply because of monetary gain or does it provide a gratification in the deeper level?

The holy book Gita extols on the importance of action.  If you only think, but not taking any action, the same will lead into frustration and anxiety, because action is the fundamental principle, which  propels the cycle of life. Inaction means, your existence is in jeopardy. You are almost like a dead person walking with a stick in  life. Action uplifts your confidence, energy and ability to prosper and this gives you a sense of joy. Everyone needs to act. An idle brain without any action is nothing, but a devil’s workshop, which is of no use and only spoils anybody’s prosperity in life.  If you do your duty religiously, a sense of accomplishment in the sense of spirituality will be developed and the same will provide you the feeling of self-purification. A pious person always acts for enlightenment and when achieves, a pure consciousness will evolve for your benefit and the same will bring  the welfare of others. 

All of us are born with a special aptitude, ability or God gifted quality.  But most of us are not able to identify the said attributes and utilize the same.  You must identify your talent and invest your efforts in that arena.  Despite this, people choose the vocations, which only provide lucrative benefits ignoring their inborn talent. If Shakespeare would have been pushed to the field of business, the world would have lost a brilliant playwright.  When you choose a field and  fix a higher target, somehow or the other, you must ignore your self-centered attitude to achieve the same. If you are not able to achieve the target, the reason could be your setting up an unrealistic target.  It is you only, who creates your own impediments.  No other person can force you to accept anything, if you are steadfast in your decision.  You must get rid of your selfishness, ego, and small-mindedness.  Perfection in you is bound to emerge.  The more ideal path you set as a goal, the more you will be powerful and your energy level will also be increased.  The Lord Krishna advocates for the Yagna sacrifice.  The ability to sacrifice is a distinct quality for any human being. To earn money for your materialistic requirement, you have to forego and sacrifice a bit here or there.  Whether you are classified as an author or a singer or a sports person, you have to sacrifice in order to achieve success. You must carry out daily work and obligatory action without giving attachment to the same.  Come out of the shackles of desire driven activity.  Your activity must provide you a joy of belongings and must provide benefits not only to you, but to many people in the society.  When your  desire mounts up and you are not in a position to fulfill them by ethical means, you are allured to perform the same at any cost.  At that point of time, your mind and body will be so much tuned to perform desired driven work; you forget the real purpose of doing work.  So, unwanted desire is the greatest enemy in your life.  It makes your ruin and it causes your failure and gives you sorrow and distress. It breaks you to a level where your personality gets distorted.  You are  mentally forced to engage in doing a certain things, which you are not supposed to do.

When you are steadfast to achieve a higher responsibility, you are not worried about lower desires and they cannot have a grip on you. You are then so determined that you are not bothered about any mundane issues and allurement.  So, you must come out of the shackles of physical desires, which will not only provide you eternal bliss, but also you will be able to connect with higher consciousness. 


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Once you reach this stage, you will enjoy all types of pleasures at the emotional and intellectual levels. Then whatever you do, you think, you perform and you achieve – all will be giving you the desire to accomplish more and more with a defined purpose.  Finally, you enter the realm of the spirit.  Then all your desires simply vanish.  You enjoy a divine blessing.

Lord Krishna says there are two aspects of perfect action – generating energy and preventing its dissipation.  You use your energy, which is the resultant output of your intellect, which will direct you to perform all actions in a subtle and ideal way.  When you set a goal and decide to achieve the same with a full concentration, mind simply surrender and body also follows your dictum. This action of yours is known as a power of radical energy. If you utilize this energy, your power of intellect will guide  your mind to engage in meaningful actions without allowing it to ponder on past deeds and future probabilities.  Otherwise, there will be  undulation on your mind and then various desires entwine you unnecessarily and you get busy to do all unproductive work. The real purpose of doing any work is to release you from unwanted matter related to greed. You must induce your awareness, which is the real force within you based on which you do work and accomplish the same with perfection. You must increase your skill based action  exercising the positive frame of mind. Then you will realize what  exactly motivates you to do something?

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