Your work has to be of a nature that challenges your central problem, that will not allow you to remain the weak person you are. Every CV has strengths, weaknesses and we know very well that our weaknesses are bigger than the ones we typically reveal on the CV. So what will challenge you enough to shatter your weaknesses down? That’s the definition of work.
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Questioner: Hello Sir. As you said that one needs to come out of the memory trap and live in the present, right? So, what other method do you suggest in keeping your mind occupied? One is that, do the right thing in the present. And, sometimes, I feel what sources should I follow, that can guide us to get out of this trapped feeling that we get, and we often are clueless that whom should we seek guidance from? Or what source should we go to get the right guidance? So, what do you suggest about that?
Acharya Prashant: You see, work is something you do to heal yourself, right? Had you been completely alright, there would have been no need of work. Then, we could have just said that all our activity is just play. Play having no purpose at all. And, that purposeless play would have been very beautiful, because nothing would have been anywhere needed to be done. But, look at our situations. We need to do a lot because we are not alright. We are not okay. Therefore, work has to be something that heals you.
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That’s how you’ve to make your choice of work. Not necessarily something that gives you the maximum money. Though, if in the process of healing you, work gives you money as well, wonderful. But money cannot be the central thing. It can be an enabler, or it can be a by-product. But money is not your central problem, therefore money cannot be your central motive. You have to know your central problem, and that will decide the work you do.
