Do your
work without expectation of result
The nishkama
does not mean that you are not supposed to do any work. It is not related to idleness. It interprets that your efforts are in the
direction of pure spirit, the uninvolved witness of passivity and the
confluence of the activity of body and mind.
If you work with your body means you are exerting your physical energy
to perform any work without the spirit, you won’t achieve a result. The reason is that the results of all
your efforts entirely depend on you and your divinity, which comes from your
attachment to God. What is this
attachment? You just remember Him with
all sincerity while starting and ending any work. Now, one may question can I
then get the result? You can expect, but not with one hundred percent attachment. With His
blessings, you concentrate on finishing work to the best of your ability and then
you watch what the outcome is?
When your ego identifies itself with the body and
feels, “I am the body,” you get involved in the work as an actor. Contrarily, if you feel that “I am the
Atman,” the pure spirit and in that state whatever you do, it will be termed as
nishkama, means egoless passivity of the
spirit. Again, if you start believing
only in absolute passivity, your living and managing worldly life and its
routine affairs will be a problem. So, you need to carry out all your jobs with
dedication and determination to cross any hurdles. If any obstacles come then, surrender your spirit of accomplishment
to the Creator without any expectation.
The Lord will fulfill your desires.
It is difficult to understand the concept
of nishkama. Because while performing any duty, by habit, you will have the tenacity to know the result as complete detachment
is not possible. You can come to a stage
when you understand that whatever
achievement you have got, it is not yours. Based on the Creator’s blessings,
you have accrued the benefit. In reality, nothing belongs to us. We have come to this world without
anything. Then, why we feel pride for
our possessions, which are all artificial, means they are our companion for a period
till we exist in this world. We require Oxygen,
and we also require food so that we
can eat the same, breathe easily and can live with peace. With these amenities provided, we can live
eighty, ninety or may be hundred years.
From nature, we can meet our
different demands.
This world is a stage on which we enact drama in
any roles. We help mutually each other for a smooth
living. You cannot be the owner if you
are not the author. The Creator of this
world is the material cause of creation.
When you established a business empire, you cannot say that I have
created this business, it is a joint effort. For establishing this empire, you
need a ground, building, human beings and other raw materials,
which were already available or you have managed
to procure getting the help of other people. You procure these resources, use
the same and establish the empire. Human
ownership is a representation of something, which has not that significant
value in the face of divine blessings.
The willpower of the individual is
only a distortion of the divine will by man’s large ego. You must transcend
fragmented attitude with the help of submission and devotion to the divine will, then only a complete peace and
perfection are possible in the midst of
performance. You start practicing
detachment, and for that, you must establish
a connection with God. Then, It will be
easy to practice detachment. Slowly, you will move to the path of detachment, and you will only observe yourself as
a witness. One will begin to see and acknowledge His manifestations with a
complete reverence. Creation and time
are endless and cyclic. The process of creation is a high thought of
introspection and creation has a specific purpose of recognizing the soul. Human species by birth is treated to be
the best vehicle with a potentiality to reach the God. The worldly man has to change his attitudinal
behavior to devote attention to work.
One will be able to perform nishkama
work when he can control his mind, and
can dwell in the state of a witness in discharging life’s duties. Of course, there should not be much of a
focus to care for the results.
: 2 :
It is possible to achieve this stage in two steps,
the first, let you be the worker and your all actions and fruits thereof must
be resigned to God. It is known as graceful acceptance of divine
blessing. The high-level monks and sages
have left their feelings for doer-ship
when they reach a higher level of divine grace, the sense of belongingness
starts disappearing. This state is known as offering a choice of action to the divine.
This special type of attitude is based on the appreciation of the divine
long back before you start taking action. The
second step, we have to supplicate to the preaching of Hindu mythology. We must
practice the concept the “nishkama,” which leads to the path of nishkama Siddhi;
otherwise, the expenses of some charitable work, releasing workers and staff’s
wages, and many other benevolent works will be meaningless.
Try to do your work without much expectation of results; it is bound to come if your dedication
is sincere. After all, God likes sincerity.
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