Listen and Celebrate -Narada Bhakti Sutra

Commentary by Sri Sri Ravishankar

Everyone can give a turn to one’s action. Maybe you are a school teacher. As a school teacher you have two tendencies. Either you think, "OK, I will be teaching, and I will be happy when I get some return out of the teaching." Then the salary day comes and you feel, "Oh, today I am happy." You know then you will be happy only on one day. But if you are teaching as an expression of joy, you go every day and there is creativity. You will be so thrilled as to what you can give to the children. [You will say to yourself], "What new things can I give them today? How can I make them more cheerful? How can I nourish these buds which can flower?" Who knows who is in which school? Have you ever thought about it as a school teacher? From your school a Lincoln, a Mahatma Gandhi or a Hitler may come. From these little kids, these little buds in the school, tomorrow from these very buds some may turn out to be thorns, others may turn out to give great fragrance. To the people around the very quality of life could change, could be so different. Joy will come. Your work and action will be an expression of joy. So, love can be enhanced in life. Divine Love can be enhanced.

© Rishimukh, February 2002, published by Vyakti Vikas Kendra, # 19, 39thA Cross, 11th Main, 4th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore 560 041. Reprinted with permission.

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