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How amazing it is to look around us and see very simple people who live a simple life, yet teach great values! I`d like to pen the greatness of little things that we miss out to understand from around us. Just thought of sharing one such encounter that I had with a simple man, Natraj who is entrusted with the duty of watering the grass/plants grown under the Over-Bridge as part of ‘Singara Chennai’. I see him every other day as I cross the bridge while I wait for the signal, and Natraj is busy watering the grass and the plants. Wait......I hear you say ‘Hey! What`s strange or special about this stuff? It`s just a normal event all of us pass by.’ What really caught my attention was, as Natraj was watering the plants, he kept on uttering something to himself all the while till he completed the duty of watering the plants in the entire area. He also kept a smiling pleasant face while uttering those words. First time when I noticed Natraj I just took a casual look and passed by. What intrigued me was, after about 2 weeks of observing Natraj`s act every single day while I crossed the bridge - Natraj Waters the plants with a smile and muttering something to himself (Thanks to the traffic signal that gave me the time I needed to watch Natraj and what he does). It`s been several months now, of observing the same act of Natraj. My curiosity mounted and forced me to get down and ask him what is that he kept on muttering with a smile all day and all the while watering the plants!

The reply that he gave made me feel how a simple man could teach great values. And that`s when I started to look at little things yielding greatness. As he does his daily duty of watering the plants he keeps on muttering the words, “The Fruit of my labor today will yield the best result”. Also Natraj said, “I keep a smile on my face all through my duty because my smile will be reciprocated in the form of the happiness that I get each day doing the duty for many years now.

The big lessons that I intend to put forth here is that “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship to god”, reminding the quote of Swami Vivekananda.

Big Lesson 1:

Our duty beckons us to deliver our ‘Key Result Areas’. If WHAT WE DO decides the results of our labor then HOW WE DO (with Love) would decide the quality of the results. So, the job will yield the deserving result for your labor only when it is being done with utmost love. Or to simply put it – your dutifulness and diligence will give you the results and the DEGREE OF LIKING will determine the magnitude of your results.

Your degree of liking (for the job) ∞ Level of Results

Big Lesson 2:

I had once set out to ask 2 questions to all my friends who were working in organizations/ institutions just as part of my thesis. My first question was, “Why do you work there(Org) ?” and my second question was, “If you were sacked from your job what will you do?” I found that the fi rst question was pretty much easier for all the respondents to answer stating it is either the money or the brand image of the company or simply that they needed a job in a specific domain and also some in fact gave responses such as they could not get job elsewhere so they work here! For the second question, there were shocked reactions from them by stating, ‘I would be depressed, I would be angry or I would be feeling low and I will start a job hunt and so on..

All that I looked as an answer for my question was the simple, “I love what I am doing. So am here for the love of my duty” And for the second question I would have been convinced if any of them had replied without the tinge of shock that, “I love what I do and so I don’t depend on others , I will find a way to keep doing what I love doing.”

Remember, our efforts get multiplied when the dose of love is added to whatever we do. PASSION LOOSENS FRICTION. Apply this logic to any aspect of life.

While you work with utmost PASSION and you are deeply passionate about what you do, then the stress/challenges of your duty would seem to be a pleasure and no more a pressure i.e FRICTION. Thus concluding with the fact that passion and friction are 2 repulsive forces.

Higher the Passion->Lesser the Friction

Big Lesson 3:

On closely studying human minds and desire, we can consider ‘Desire’ to be a kind of force/energy and so equate it to Einstein’s` . Now look within you for any desire that you possess. The desire inside you gives you theenergy to move towards achieving the desire. So, going by this understanding, if your desire is so strong and innately intense, it will attract all the surrounding energy from every source and push you stronger in achieving your desire. This can also be related to the concept of ‘Law of Attraction’. The Love kindles your desire and ignites you to your results.

Greater Love for duty->stronger desire->High Positive energy

The greatest successes or the achievements does not stem out from the mere ambition rather it grows as a fruit of the Love of Labor or the Love for Duty. So it isn`t enough to simply set goals or being just ambitious. What it takes to reach the roaring success is your love for your duty. The unrelenting desire which breeds in as a result of your love will take you to excellence.

The 3 big lessons guide you with inside-out view onto your degree of the liking for your duty, the level of passion that you possess towards what you do each day in your job and finally the love, desire and energy equation. Whatever be the duty that you do, the value that you attach to what you do decides what you be and how you be! It`s the simple man Natraj and his little things of value that opened insights to greater thoughts and big lessons for us.

Stay Calm, Listen to your conscience and answer to yourself; “Is Your Love, Your Duty?”

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FEBRUARY 2015 ISSUE