Acharya Prashant: The entire month you work telling yourself that your work is totally selfless, right? You can do that. We are very capable of deceiving ourselves. The entire month you worked and what did you keep telling yourself, “I work in a spirit of pious charity; I am nothing but just a humble servant of Lord, the Father.” And then, at the month end, you receive the paycheck.
If you want to know why you kept working for the thirty days; if you want to know why you kept slogging the thirty days, the most effective way is to see is what you are doing with the paycheck. What you are doing with the paycheck will very loudly demonstrate why you kept working the 30 days. It’s unmistakable; irrefutable proof it is. See what you do with the fruits of your labor. What do you do with your salary that will tell you why you work.
Or maybe it is not merely salary that you get, we consume psychic things as well. Maybe on the thirtieth day your boss comes and praises you in front of the entire staff and that really inflates you within. If it inflates you within, then you are consuming the praise, aren’t you? And that will tell you why you kept working the thirty days. See what is it that you do with, what you get out of your action that will tell you why you act at all and therefore, you will know who the actor is. Once you know why the action is happening, you also know from where the action is happening. The actor is now exposed.
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