People think serving their mother is their duty.
If you serve your mother, massaging her legs etc, thinking it is your duty,
then it is better that you do not serve her at all.
Serve her only if you have love in your heart.
Why do we lack interest in doing something?
Suppose, you start an industry and you do not make any profit,
you will lose interest in it and think of doing some other business
So, wherever there is a deficit, you lose interest in it.
So, we must think about the way we do ourwork.
The ones who love to work, such as a karma yogi (someone who acts selflessly), like our mothers.
At times when she has a headache, you see her face weary.
Otherwise, she is always happily serving you food, cooking and doing everything.
But she never says that I am not in the mood to cook today.
These days, women say, “Today I am not in the mood to cook
Eat something outside and get some for me as well.
This ‘mood’ is a very funny thing! It creates a lot of misunderstanding
and because of which we lose control of our lives.
Who isn’t rushed in life? When we do not have much time left,
when a person is dying, and has hardly 5 minutes of life then we start realising,
I should have done this, I should have done that, I should have done this as well”.
But now you have only 5 minutes in hand. So, whatever you do, do it with interest.
If we lack interest then pray to God, “I am unable to do this.
Please help me.”
We must pray for help and whatever work we do, we must have interest in it - karma is a rule.
Even God cannot do without karma.
Lord Krishna says in Gita, “I cannot stay away from action, from karma, even for a moment.”
So, we have to do karma
And what kind of Karma? Shri Krishna has described karma in three grades - one that we simply keep doing,
particularly those that we do out of compulsion.
That is also a type of karma - that which is done out of compulsion.
The second kind is where we bear neither of these feelings but we keep doing because we think it is our duty.
We serve our mother because we think it is our duty.
If you serve your mother, massaging her legs etc, thinking it is your duty then it is better that you do not serve her at all
If there is love for her in your heart only then serve her. If you do not have love, then leave it.
Out of compulsion if we think that it is my duty then do not do it. Do it only if you have love.
Only then there is fun in the whole thing. When a mother breastfeeds her child,
does she do it out of compulsion? When the child cries, the mother lifts it in her arms.
Even if it cries at 2 am in the night, she will still take the baby in her arms.
And what will the husbands do? [snoring]
And by chance, when the mother is unwell, and the milk bottle has to be warmed in the microwave,
that is all he has to do, then cool it and give it to his child to drink.
And he will note this down in a diary,” 5th April 2023:
My wife is not well, unfortunately. I had to wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning.
My son was crying. I got up, warmed the milk and I had to feed him, which disturbed my sleep.
And I went late to my work”. He will write this and in the morning he
will also tell his wife, “See, I did all these things.” He did do his karma but there is a difference between the two.
Karma should be performed in such a manner that it becomes a karma
perform the karma but let it not affect your mind
We remain unaware whether we have done it or not. Like the way we breathe.
Does anybody ask, whether I am breathing or not? There is no use of asking such a thing
When you ask a mother, “Have you fed the milk or not?”
“Why do you ask? Whenever needed the baby will be fed”.
So, this becomes absolutely automatic. Like Babuji says, our life, especially, our practice,
our sadhana, tapasya (penance), must become automatic.
The meditation that we do every morning and evening - Meditation and Cleaning,
and meditation and cleaning - this should become our nature.
We should become meditative. And then when we meditate the next day,
this meditative state is enhanced.So the inner condition becomes deep and goes deeper.
And these depths become the nature of our life - our nature forms through these depths
It becomes very strong, the foundation of which becomes so strong that no circumstance can destroy it
standing strong like mountains
Unlike having a little headache or something, and the house is on strike, there are fights in the house.
What for? So, karma, vikarma, and akarma.
When we do not feel like doing things then it is a lower work,
then comes karma - we do it or not, does not make any difference.
Next, vikarma - special karma in which we do work with interest and love.
And the highest is when we are not aware whether we have performed karma or not.
This is where no samskaras (impressions) are formed.
This is why Babuji, in his wisdom, has written about Constant Remembrance, “Think that the Master is doing the work”.
So, what effect will that work have then? You become the Master yourself.
From the inside, He is only working - watch how you feel
Secondly, your attitude should be that of ‘doing the work for Him, for God, who is my everything.
He is the only focus of my life.
He is everything in my life.’ So, that time, when we do things with such an attitude,
observe the quality of the karma performed during that time.
If you are a doctor, and a patient is in front of you,
the attitude is: ‘it is God who is doing it or God is making me do it or I am doing it for God’.
But we instead think, "I got a good guinea pig. We will take out one of his kidneys as well.
” This happens, right? So, such doctors become dacoits. They become robbers.
On the other hand, you also have the option of performing karma with devotion, bhakti is created in karma.
Therefore, we do not need to take-up sannyasa.
If we can bring an attitude of devotion in karma, then it becomes all-encompassing.