The question is whether to lean towards developing a skill more deeply or switching through multiple projects & getting them delivered/completed with other skilled individuals? Prior is costly in terms of time and later in terms of money. Finding a middle ground may not be perfect, but practical for sure. But is practicality what one pursues more than Perfection?
For Perfection, doesn’t focus or concentration is a basic requirement that’s doing only a limited thing, but a variety of them.Β Eg, One’s profession is one thing (salary/job doing best), but also chasing new ideas/solutions/products to make the existing world a much better place for the Divine to experience?
The first thing needed is a shift of motives, a reorientation, a turning away inwardly from a life centered around the satisfactions of the ego and desire, a life in pursuit of pleasures and outer success, to a life dedicated to the discovery of the Divine within and to express the Divine through all we do, to live life for the higher Purpose. It is not about finding the middle ground, but the inner ground and then take a leap of faith. If the aspiration is sincere and one genuinely surrenders oneself and one’s actions to the Divine Mother, then all the inner and outer help comes and slowly one grows into the perfection one is meant to grow into.Β
Read the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, especially The Mother by Sri Aurobindo, Elements of Yoga and try to put into practice, in whatever limited way you feel inclined and inspired. The rest will come.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
