Om Aham Mani Information Service
Work and Renunciation
Extract...
Work performed with attachment is a shackle.
Work performed with detachment does not affect the doer.
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One's course of conduct in this life is determined by one's karma.
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Whether you continue in the household or renounce it and go to the forest your mind haunts you.
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Make no effort either to work or to renounce, your effort is the bondage.
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The Self is universal: so all actions will go on whether you strain yourself to be engaged or not.
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Attending to the Self means attending to the work.
- All realized persons uniformly see neither bondage or liberation so far as the true Self is concerned.
Summary
The state of pure being which is common to all and which is always experienced directly by everybody is one's true nature. The conclusion is that all experiences in the enlightened, as well as the ignorant, state which may be described by newer and newer words, are opposed to one's real nature.
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