Dear Divine Ma,
What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?
Today we are visiting Bharat and Shamani in Chandigarh. Lovely quiet ashram building. They don’t expect all that much from the congregation here, and seem content to mostly spend time serving their online community, the graduates of Shankara’s Kriya Prep track of students. I wonder, am I ever content with what I’m doing for Master? Am I ever just doing a simple thing for the Work, and happy simply to do that well?
“You keep seeming to choose things that are exciting to you, to have new projects that are breaking new ground, rather than patiently working the same land until it’s rich and fertile. You’re always looking for something new to keep you interested. What’s wrong with doing a small thing well, with grace and wisdom, rather than always attempting new projects that you don’t actually know how to do very well? You bore too easily. The profoundness of a task makes you sleepy. The new and exciting keeps you ever awake. But while always doing that, when can you ever go deep?”