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Namah Notes on counselling

The lady in the house has been diligently
cooking for the whole family throughout
their lifetime. They all contribute to social
stability and they are all marked by their
anonymous nature.

Krishnamurti once commented:

“Is it not possible to live in this world without
ambition, just being what you are? If you begin
to understand what you are without trying
to change it, then what you are undergoes a activities. There are those that have given
transformation. I think one can live in this world a lifetime to the bakery, to the laundry, to
anonymously, completely unknown, without the dining room. And their work has been
being famous, ambitious, cruel. One can live always considered to be serious and flawless,
very happily when no importance is given to anonymous but no less important than those
a
the self; and this also is part of right education. lecturing on sadhana. a

The whole world is worshipping success. You The Mother commented:
hear stories of how the poor boy studied at
night and eventually became a judge, or how “Agitation, haste, restlessness lead nowhere. It
he began by selling newspapers and ended is foam on the sea; it is a great fuss that stops
up a multimillionaire. You are fed on the with itself. Men have a feeling that if they are
glorification of success. With achievement of not all the time running about and bursting into
great success there is also great sorrow; but most fits of feverish activity, they are doing nothing.
of us are caught up in the desire to achieve, and It is an illusion to think that all these so-called
success is much more important to us than the movements change things. It is merely taking
understanding and dissolution of sorrow (1).” a cup and beating the water in it; the water
is moved about, but it is not changed for all
The illusion of action your beating. The illusion of action is one of
the greatest illusions of human nature. It hurts
To understand the sorrow that comes progress because it brings on you the necessity
with success, one has to embark on a of rushing always into some excited movement.
metaphysical or spiritual quest. But before If you could only perceive the illusion and see
that can happen, one has to acknowledge how useless it all is, how it changes nothing!
that mere running about to do something Nowhere you can achieve anything by it. Those
does not necessarily mean successful work. who are thus rushing about are the tools of
And it does not mean that a great work is forces that make them dance for their own
being done for the world. amusement. And they are not forces of the
same quality either.
In the Ashram at Pondicherry, there are
scores of sadhaks engaged in so-called trivial Whatever has been done in the world has been

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