As Lord Krishna said, if we work … we are doing true yoga. He also inspired the warrior in Arjuna to keep doing the work … and not contemplate a consequence.

‘Karmanyavadhikaraste Ma faleshu Kadachana ….’ And so it goes.

How in India we believe in these sayings of the Lord but all of that is on paper … seldom in practice. We are the ones who are lazy workers, reluctant to take up anything new to work on … with enough initiative. All of this because Lord asked us to …

But then is all work a form of worship to the Lord?

I prefer to spend a few minutes before I conclude. In my imagination, there is a work that is positive, radiates positive energy and also creates some amount of productivity among my society. While there may be others … like the guy who sells movie tickets in the black market or the thief who steals… whose work and targets, definitely not at all slackened than mine … is an example of ‘bad’ work.

Do such bad workmen keep doing their work and not care about the consequences?

Well, Lord did not elaborate or may be, He assumed that all work is not something this phrase meant. There are certainly those works that gave Him pleasure and help mankind to grow. I do not intend to debate … for my knowledge on the type of work Lord envisaged is very feeble.

Since Lord said, do we consider this as the hard core rule of life?

I guess, his idea was to preach the doctrine of work to Arjun and subsequently to the whole societal mass of India to keep working … intention being to keep the cycle of activity moving … but that was the need of the hour. May be, his focus area was to make everybody keep the wheels of work move … and less on what should be differentiated as a good work or a bad work.

Or may be He was purely trying to be diplomatic and encouraging Arjuna to help complete the great war of Mahabharata. All of these are mere guesswork. I may be off the mark by a few million yards.

One way to appreciate this is to keep the good work going … while the other way to interpret this will be to do all those work that are close to expressing gratitude to God … and His creations.

But my way of interpretation, why was He not specific? A question that may be coming from the devil’s workshop!

Physicists from the world over … they are the ones who ask about the vector displacement for a determined force as a measure of work. There are so many more classifications.

My work is cut out. After this prolonged sabbatical, I intend to start my journey again probing my idle brains. Some of you may have written me off … while some others may have thought I called it quits.

But I am back … I need to stay on … at least to be one of the few surviving devil’s advocate.

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written by Administrator, November 16, 2009

welcome back........

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written by Santosh, November 17, 2009

Religion considers work as worship at the same time it preaches not to harm others. As long as you think that humanity is only benefitted by what you do, you are blessed. Like as long as the blackmarketeer feels that he is helping cinegoers he is doing "good work". It is for idle brains to spring back to life, quit being the devils' advocate and write about righteousness and virtue and let him know of the harm he is doing.
Welcome back dear friend!!

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written by IdleMind, November 18, 2009

@ Administrator - thanks, friend!

@ Santosh - well said, friend. May I also add that devil's advocates are required to probe into this unholy practice of glorifying work. Righteousness and Virtues? are they the only reasons this world is working?

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written by Anuradha Banerji, November 22, 2009

i don't know what is written exactly in bhagwad gita on this but the popular saying goes -' karm hi puja hai aur koi kaam chota ya bada nai hota'. in that case a beggar 'employed' to beg is doing justice to his job when he puts forward his hand before you at the signal...
today in India the black-ticket sellers or thives are mostly employed and earn daily wages for their jobs that are not virtuous...

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written by IdleMind, November 23, 2009

@ Anuradha - the virtue part is what is debatable! the work remains a work ... no matter who does it or how. Got your point!

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