So Swami Vivekananda in his exposition of Vedanta declares:
"Love is higher than work, than yoga; than knowledge. Day and night think
of God in the midst of all your activities. The daily necessary thoughts
can all be thought through God. Eat to Him, drink to Him, sleep to Him, see
Him in all. Let us open ourselves to the one Divine Actor, and let Him act
and do nothing ourselves. Complete self-surrender is the only way. Put out
self, lose it; forget it."
Let us substitute for the words "God," and "Him," the one word Love, and
see what it is that we are told to do.
Love of doing good frees us from work, even though we labor from early dawn
until the night falls; so, too, if we have some loved one for whom we
strive, we can endure every hardship with equanimity, as far as our own
comfort is concerned. Few human beings in the world to-day are so enmeshed
in the personal self as to work merely for the gratification of selfish
instincts. The hard-working man, whether laborer or banker, must have some
one else for whom he struggles and strives; otherwise, he descends to a
level below that of the brute.
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