When I am trying to learn something, now the past knots keep coming. The old way of learning through Mother’s Grace, I’ve always had work, but I limited myself to working for a paycheck and was caught in the endless cycle of earning and paying bills. Recently, I started offering my work to the Divine, which keeps me grounded and calm. Yet there’s this persistent question: what am I truly here for? What is my work?
Coming from a family where childhood and teenage years were entirely focused on “work to earn and pay bills,” unlearning these habits is only possible through the Mother’s Grace. I feel blessed to have come across Maa Sri Aurobindo and learn that every work- cleaning, eating, talking, writing — can be seen in a Divine way.
But I also feel a deep pain realizing that for many years I didn’t truly “work” in a conscious, purposeful sense and I still don’t know what I should truly dedicate myself to.
I would be grateful for guidance on how to align my career and work life according to the Divine’s plan.
It is so with everybody. Even those who come consciously for a specific work take time before the future horizons become fully clear. What we call as ‘having wasted one’s time’ is part of the necessary preparation. It has brought you where you are today, at the Feet of the Mother.
There is clearly a Guidance in life that is carrying us despite all that is happening on the surface. It is this inner thread of life that one must catch, the quiet moments and see the thoughts, the feelings, the impulsions, and behind them all, something gently pushing us towards our true destiny. It is there, in these quiet depths, that one can find the indications, the shape of the unformed future trying to emerge.
Surface analysis does not give us access to this inner Guidance. What one has to do is to quieten the surface noise and chatter, the judgments and pronouncements, and try to seek the Divine purpose in your life. The deeper one shifts, the closer one gets to this purpose. Until then, one should dedicate to the Mother whatever field of action is given to us by the play of destiny and keep up the seeking for Her Presence, within which is the first and most important thing to do.
Affectionately
Alok Da
Source: Finding the Divine through Works
YT Link: https://youtu.be/Z4tH4oU_1dg
