Attitude Towards Work
Humility in one's inner attitude, forcefulness in one's work, and faith in the Master; these three should be combined in our attitude towards our work. Humility does not mean shyness or self-effacement. My Master used to say that if you are having faith in Him, if you have courage in yourself, confidence in the work and absolute unshakable will power, in some way they operate like the four fingers of the hand, you see, the fifth being the Master Himself.
Everything that we do, if we do in the consciousness that this is the Master who is working, we don't exist and therefore there can be no arrogance, no pride, nothing in us. If we work in the consciousness that it is the Master who is working, we cease to exist. Then how can you be proud or humble? So we achieve that state where we transcend both the opposites. So, of such a person you cannot say that he is humble or he is proud. He is what he is. And that is what his Master made him.
So I would like all of you to think of this and step froward in the Master's work. Because work done for the Master cannot in any way harm us. The work of the Master done in His remembrance cannot in any way spoil our character. The work of the Master done with faith in the Master can never be a failure. And the work of the Master done with the will of the Master working through us must have results, as He wanted them to have.
In such a way do we become perfect workers for the Master, able to achieve perfect results for humanity, without our having any consciousness that we are doing something or achieving something. To my mind the greatest benefit is this: that failure or the idea of failure can never affect us.
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