A question has been in me for long. What do I do ? I do so many things anyway and I know I am capable of doing much more. So, Shall I go ahead and open a school, or a college ? How about a Gaushala ? What about a learning centre ? May be a processing unit for Organic grains ?
Woooh! There are so many things I can do and each one of these have their own strong reason for me to do it. They all look like "need of hour" and " noble work". They look like socially positive action and a constructive intervention into the today's troubled world.
Then there is other side....that says, no ! All doing is eventually going to create mess. Don't do anything. Let this be your gift that you did not mess up things further !
Is that coming from my laziness or fear of doing great things ?
Wise men have told in past the best way to help others is to really help yourself, Ramana Maharishi said, "Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world." !
It sounds perfect too because only complete picture and realization of absolute truth can guide you to "action" that will really help humanity. Otherwise, we are only doing our bit , to screw up the world further. Any action without larger picture will appear wrong once we have the large picture.
So, Shall I act according to my small picture ? Or shall I wait for larger picture ? What if I never get to see the larger picture in this lifetime ? Am I then simply suppose to wait and watch ?
Shouldn't I be doing things ? Shouldn't I be starting revolutions I am capable of ?
It's funny, disturbing and deeply satisfying all at the sametime to face this confusion. The answer is far...but from my limited intuition, I see many chaotic high energy clouds of actions close to my eyes, along with tiny glimpses of blue sky of total rest and non-doing.
Woooh! There are so many things I can do and each one of these have their own strong reason for me to do it. They all look like "need of hour" and " noble work". They look like socially positive action and a constructive intervention into the today's troubled world.
Then there is other side....that says, no ! All doing is eventually going to create mess. Don't do anything. Let this be your gift that you did not mess up things further !
Is that coming from my laziness or fear of doing great things ?
Wise men have told in past the best way to help others is to really help yourself, Ramana Maharishi said, "Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world." !
It sounds perfect too because only complete picture and realization of absolute truth can guide you to "action" that will really help humanity. Otherwise, we are only doing our bit , to screw up the world further. Any action without larger picture will appear wrong once we have the large picture.
So, Shall I act according to my small picture ? Or shall I wait for larger picture ? What if I never get to see the larger picture in this lifetime ? Am I then simply suppose to wait and watch ?
Shouldn't I be doing things ? Shouldn't I be starting revolutions I am capable of ?
It's funny, disturbing and deeply satisfying all at the sametime to face this confusion. The answer is far...but from my limited intuition, I see many chaotic high energy clouds of actions close to my eyes, along with tiny glimpses of blue sky of total rest and non-doing.
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