Act Intelligently!

Act Intelligently!

Life expresses itself in action. No living organism can remain without action even a split moment. You may say, “I am not working today, I am off”, you may not be working at the office but you will be making a mess at home. Ask your wife and she will tell you, “it’s better he had office.”

Now suppose you saw in my home I am going to lie down. Lying down also you are doing work because your mind is thinking, that is work. No Swamiji, I am going to sleep..I am not physically working, I am not mentally thinking..so I am not working.
NO! At that time also, tremendous work is going on in you- digestion, circulation, heart-throbbing. You are continuously brearhing- all these are actions. It may be involuntary but it is Action.
“Swamiji, we are going to stop even that.” Then you are going to make all others very active. They will arrange for your burial!”
So long as we are living, nobody can live even a split moment without action. Action is the signature of Life on the organism, whether it is a plant, an animal or a human! Life in the organism manifests itself as Action. So the choice it is not- Should I work? Should I act?
That choice is not there. Work we must. Only choice is working intelligently or intelligently, creatively or destructively.