Read This Excerpt - Transform & Transform
"Yoga is the art
of doing everything with the consciousness of God. Not only when you are
meditating, but also when you are working, your thoughts should be constantly
anchored in Him. If you work with the consciousness that you are doing it to
please God, that activity unites you with Him. Therefore do not imagine that
you can find God only in meditation. Both meditative and right activity are
essential, as the Bhagavad-Gita teaches. If you think of God while you perform
your duties in this world, you will be mentally united with Him.
Cease to think that
you are working for yourself. Find God by striving to make your daily
activities less identified with "me" and "mine" and more
identified with God. Each one of you can feel you are performing all your
activities in the consciousness of God, for example, by eating not for yourself
but to look after the body temple in which God resides; by doing your work not
with the idea of personal gain, but as a service to God, and with the thought
of God. Feel that the care of those souls who are in your charge has been
assigned to you by God's will."
-Paramahansa Yogananda: The Divine Romance.
End (1766).
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