SV CW Vol2 : Work and Its Secret - Summary

VOL 2 Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

WORK and Its SECRET

Jan 4, 1900, Los Angeles, CA.

Theme:               Determine the goal, Determine the means (to achieve the goal) then (forget the goal) perfect the determined means.

Reason:              Means == Cause and Goal == Effect => Means Perfected results in the Goal.

To achieve this Swami V prescribed a set of Do’s and Don’ts. 

Develop the Ideal: 

1. Develop SUPERDIVINE (not super human) power:
2. Develop complete attachment and complete detachment
3. Develop Pure Unselfishness
4. Have NO Expectations
5. Develop the noblest of hearts each and every day
6. The Super divine Power of the Total control – not hitting back when one blow can smash the cause of our irritation.. Nature wants us to hit back; develop the strength of annihilation but do NOT use it.
7. Achieve Total Success
8. Acquire the mighty power of LOVE Like Christ.. sacrificed his life.. result million upon millions of people are achieving their ultimate success through Him for thousands of years.

The Means:

DOs:

Learn to LOVE
Become UNATTACHED:  (the following are the characteristics)

1. Develop complete attachment and complete detachment
2. Develop Pure Unselfishness
3. Have NO Expectations
4. Develop the noblest of hearts each and every day
5. The Super divine Power of the Total control – not hitting back when one blow can smash the cause of our irritation.. Nature wants us to hit back; develop the strength of annihilation but do NOT use it.
6. Achieve Total Success
7. Acquire the mighty power of LOVE Like Christ.. sacrificed his life.. result million upon millions of people are achieving their ultimate success through Him for thousands of years.

DO NOTs:

1. Focus on the goal after it is determined.
2. Be weak – physical and mental degradation should be avoided at all cost. Even disease is because of mental weakness otherwise millions of microbes dare not affect us if we are healthy.. they seek the moment we become weak mentally.
3. Be a wall – wall have no feelings.. we must learn to LOVE, be attached, We will get blows from attachments until we learn to be detached yet to escape the misery we should not forego our feelings and become a wall. A wall does not suffer and yet a wall does not grow.
4. Be a beggar, trader, expector.
5. Be selfish
6. WARNING 1: Become stoic, cynical, pessimistic, dead in heart (people become like this after getting blows after practicing simplicity, purity, truthfulness, kindness etc.) We should be v careful never to let that happen that is loose hope in the blessedness of life.
7. WARNING 2: Loose faith in sincerity, purity, love, kindness, simplicity
8. Blame the world => its adding lie to misery because if we say it’s a devil’s world then we are devils because we are living in it.

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Give up attending to others for a time (and focus on yourself):

Because :   you ARE the means.

Constant Practice

Result/Achievement:

1. We get only that for which we are fitted.
2. Real control over oneself
3. No Misery or blow or disease
4. Total success
5. Purity
6. Perfection

 (c) Nandini Mitra Banerjee, Sept 18, 2013