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Every nation, there are those who really are the salt and who work for work's, who couldn't care less for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven. They work since good will happen to it. There are other people who do good to the poor and help mankind from still higher motives, since they have faith in doing good and love good. The motive for name and fame from time to time brings quick results, they come to us when we are old and have practically finished with life.

If that a man works with no childish motive, he is not acquiring anything? Indeed, he picks up the highest. Unselfishness is more paying, just people have not the patience to rehearse it. It is more paying also from the purpose of health. Love, truth and unselfishness are not just moral figures of speech, but rather they form our highest perfect, in light of the fact that in them lies such a manifestation of power.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are, the better for us, and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let free our feelings, we squander so much energy, smash our nerves, bother our minds, and fulfill next to no work. The energy which should have gone out as work is spent as simple feeling, which means nothing. It is just when the mind is extremely calm and collected that the whole of its energy is spent in doing good work.

What's more, on the off chance that you read the lives of the immense workers which the world has created, you will find that they were superbly calm men. Nothing, figuratively speaking, could divert them from their balance. That is the reason the man who ends up plainly angry never does an incredible amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry finishes to such an extent.

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The man who offers way to outrage, or disdain, or some other passion, can't work, he just breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. Everybody works somehow or other in this world. In any case, there is such an unbelievable marvel as misusing our energies. Concerning Karma-Yoga, the Gita says that it is doing work with keenness and as a science, by knowing how to work, one can get the greatest results.

We should recollect that all work is essentially to draw out the power of the mind which is now there, to awaken the soul. The power is inside each man, so is knowing. Inactivity ought to be stayed away from definitely. Activity always implies resistance. Oppose all evils, mental and physical, and when you have prevailing with regards to resisting, at that point will calmness come.

It is anything but difficult to say,"Hate nobody, oppose not evil," but rather we comprehend what that sort of thing generally implies by and by. At the point when the eyes of society are turned towards us, we may make a show of non-resistance, however in our hearts it is blister all the time. We feel the express need of the calm of non-resistance, we feel that it would be better for us to stand up to.

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On the off chance that you want riches, and know while the whole world respects him who goes for riches as an exceptionally devilish man, you, maybe, won't set out to dive into the battle for riches, yet your mind will pursue day and night money. This is false reverence and will fill no need. Dive into the world, and afterward, after a time, when you have endured and delighted in all that is in it, will renunciation come, at that point will calmness come.

He who always estimates with reference to what anticipates him later on, achieves nothing. What you have comprehended as true and good, simply do that on the double. What's the good of computing what might possibly befall in future? The traverse of life is so short and would anything be able to be proficient in it on the off chance that you continue estimating and figuring results? God is the main container of results, leave it to Him to do all that.

The worker is joined to results that protests about the nature of the duty which has fallen to his lot, to the unattached worker all duties are equally good, and form proficient instruments with which selfishness and sensuality might be murdered, and the flexibility of the soul secured. We are all adept to have a favorable opinion of ourselves. Our duties are dictated by our deserts to a substantially bigger degree than we will allow.

Competition rouses envy, and it executes the kindliness of the heart. To the complainer, all duties are distasteful, nothing will ever fulfill him, and his whole life is bound to demonstrate a disappointment. Give us a chance to work on, doing as we go whatever happens to be our duty, and being ever prepared to put our shoulders to the wheel. At that point clearly shall we see the Light.

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Indeed, even the greatest fool can fulfill an errand as long as it be after his heart. In any case, the intelligent man is he who can change over each work into one that suits his taste. No work is frivolous. Everything in this world resembles a banyanseed, which, however appearing minor as a mustard-seed, has yet the tremendous banyan tree idle inside it. He in fact is intelligent who sees this and prevails with regards to making all work really extraordinary.

Duty of any sort isn't to be slighted. A man who does the lower work isn't a lower man than he who does the higher work, a man ought not be judged by the nature of his duties, yet by the manner in which he does them. His manner of doing them and his power to do them are to be sure the test of a man. A shoemaker who can turn out a solid, pleasant pair of shoes in the shortest conceivable time is a superior man, as indicated by his profession and his work, than a professor who blathers each day of his life.

Each duty is holy, and dedication to duty is the highest form of the love of God, it is absolutely a wellspring of awesome help in enlightening and emancipating the bamboozled and numbness burdened souls of the Baddhas.

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Reference:
Personality Development
By: Swami Vivekananda