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Disinterested work done for the Divine

The surest means of progressing.

Disinterested work: work done with no other motive than of doing as well as possible the Divine's work. Early comment

Crinum Spp. L. (Liliaceae; Alt. Amaryllidaceae)

Swamplily

White

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Disinterested work done for the Divine

Today You gave me a flower meaning "Disinterested work". So I must find the interest that lies hidden behind every kind of work.

The flower means precisely: all work that is done, in all sincerity, in consecration to the Divine.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 17. - More answers from the Mother

Disinterested work done for the Divine

All action must be made in it part of the God-life, our acts of knowledge, our acts of power and production and creation, our acts of joy and beauty and the soul's pleasure, our acts of will and endeavour and struggle and not our acts only of love and beneficent service. Its way to do these things will be not outward and mental, but inward and spiritual, and to that end it will bring into all activities, whatever they are, the spirit of divine love, the spirit of adoration and worship, the spirit of happiness in the Divine and in the beauty of the Divine so as to make all life a sacrifice of the works of the soul's love to the Divine, its cult of the Master of its existence.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volumes 20-21. - The Synthesis of Yoga

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