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Cheerfulness in work for the Divine

Aesthetic taste (early name)

Divine cheerfulness in work (early name)

Divine cheerfulness in aesthetic work (early name)

Divine cheerfulness in artistic work (early name)

Radiating divine cheerfulness in work (early name)

Work for the Divine and you will feel an ineffable joy filling your being.

 

Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])

Golden tickseed

Several colours

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Aesthetic taste (Early name)

Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])

Golden tickseed

crimson, single or double

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Divine cheerfulness in work (early name)

Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])

Golden tickseed

Yellow, single or double

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Divine cheerfulness in aesthetic work (early name)

Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])

Golden tickseed

Yellow with a crimson centre, single or double

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Divine cheerfulness in artistic work (early name)

Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])

Golden tickseed

Single red with yellow at the edges

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Radiating divine cheerfulness in work (early name)

Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])

Golden tickseed

double red with yellow

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Try to enjoy doing everything you do.

When you are interested in what you do, you enjoy doing it.

To be interested in what you do, you must try to do it better and better.

In progress lies true joy.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother

Work by itself is only a preparation, so is meditation by itself, but work done in the increasing yogic consciousness is a means of realisation as much as meditation is....

Karma is a much simpler road provided one's mind is not fixed on the Karma to the exclusion of the Divine. The aim must be the Divine and the work can only be a means.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3

Work is a good discipline. But it is not this idea, it is not the idea of a passive, unconscious and almost involuntary submission. It is not that. It does not lie only in work.

The most important surrender is the surrender of your character, your way of being, so that it may change. If you do not surrender your very own nature, never will this nature change. It is this that is most important. You have certain ways of understanding, certain ways of reacting, certain ways of feeling, almost certain ways of progressing, and above all, a special way of looking at life and expecting from it certain things – well, it is this you must surrender. That is, if you truly want to receive the divine Light and transform yourself, it is your whole way of being you must offer – offer by opening it, making it as receptive as possible so that the divine Consciousness which sees how you ought to be, may act directly and change all these movements into movements more true, more in keeping with your real truth. This is infinitely more important than surrendering what one does. It is not what one does ( what one does is very important, that ' s evident ) that is the most important thing but what one is. Whatever the activity, it is not quite the way of doing it but the state of consciousness in which it is done that is important.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 4. - Questions And Answers (1950-51)

Work is part of the Yoga and it gives the best opportunity for calling down the Presence, the Light and the Power into the vital and its activities; it increases also the field and the opportunity of surrender.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother

It is the spirit and the consciousness from which it is done that makes an action yogic – it is not the action itself.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3

To do the work that one does with all sincerity, as perfectly as one can, is certainly one of the best ways to serve the Divine.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother

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