Let us work with our physical passions and emotional impulses dedicated unto the Lord, with a wakeful intellect, policing our lust, greed, pride, arrogance and other such lower urges. Let us work in love and charity, with deep sympathy and all tenderness. Work when undertaken in this attitude, becomes a rewarding fulfillment in itself, whatever be the final result. Inspired by the Lord, at the altar of our heart, when we work thus in love and joy, the achievement comes to exhibit a glow, at once and divine and unique, bringing forth untold happiness to the world around us. Even if our plans break down, our schemes fail, our purpose gets shattered, our efforts become wasted, we shall find some miraculous power secretly pouring unending success into our fields and accomplishing things which we never planned showering blessings all around which we never conceived of. This then is the gospel of work.
- Swami Chinmayananda
Tapovan Prasad, June 2011
