Doing something totally means doing it from a point of totality. It does not mean how far you go in doing that thing. It is not the action that matters; it is the point of origin of the action that matters. Action will be dictated by situations, but your center cannot be. Living totally means that you remain the same in the moment of your deepest fulfillment and deepest frustration.
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Acharya Prashant: The question is that both of these statements appear to be imperatives.
First, тАЬWhatever you do, do it totally.тАЭ
Second, тАЬWhatever you do, you remain unaffected by the doing.тАЭ
How are these two to be put together? Is there a contradiction? If yes, how is to be reconciled? What is meant by doing something totally?
We need to go into this to understand this.
Usually, when we say that something is to be done totally, we equate that with an expanse in time, an expanse in energy, instead of investing five units of resources in it, I invested fifty units of resources because I wanted to do it totally. Instead of going one mile, I went all the way for ten miles because I wanted to do it totally. So we equate this totalness with a stretch, with an expanse. In other words, what we say is тАЬdoing something totallyтАЭ means going as far as our desire, our motivation wants us to go, right?
