"The Secret of Achievement in Life"

Recorded Speech by H.D. Shri Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati,
played for all Devotees and Guests, on 25th December 2020,
on the Occasion of Omkarananda Jayanti Celebrations,
in Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas, Muni-ki-reti, via Rishikesh, India

OM !

The Secret of Success in anything lies in total concentration on that thing.
For instance, if you have taken up a work, you must be so completely concentrated in this work, that you have no knowledge of the environment, no knowledge of anything! You have to be completely absorbed in it! It must arrest your whole attention and demand the function and employment to the optimum of all your inner powers.
If you take up a work, you must do it with all the heart and soul, with the ganze* strength of the will. Then what happens is, in this situation, if somebody asks you: "What is the day?" You don't know. "Did you take food?" You don't know. "Did you have your tea?" You don't know. "What is the time?" You don't know. "How many people were around you just now?" You don't know. "What have you heard? They were making so much of noise." "I don't know".

In this state you would be.

So, this development, this absorption in your work and doing your work to your perfect perfection - you see - with total concentration, this developed ability you can later on transfer to your spiritual field.

Thereafter, if you are meditating on God or doing a God-work, then you would be so totally absorbed, that you become identical with the very Presence and Nature of God. You will transcend time- and space-limitations.

A great artist, a great thinker, an original, a genius, and so on, they also, momentarily, for a fleeting moment, transcend space-time consciousness. They are totally absorbed. They become identical with the field, which they are exploring, or the subject they are studying, or the thing they are artistically or scientifically creating, und* so on.

So, also with the ordinary work, if you give your whole heart to this work and do it with all the concentration of your heart and mind and soul and its powers or their powers, then you would be able to transfer this developed capacity of being above time and space and pursuing your subject with intensity, to the spiritual field, when you get into the spiritual field, or to God, when you shift your activity to the divine field.

That is the Secret of Achievement in Life:

Total devotion to one's work, taking work as an art, as a discipline, as a means for unfolding inner capacities, hidden qualities, higher qualities, nobler qualities, divine qualities und* so forth.

Efficiency in your work and a desire to achieve perfection in your work is essential in the preliminary stage.

Later on, these very things could be transferred to the spiritual world, to the world of God-experience. OM !

(Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati)

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* "ganze" = German for English "whole"
   "und" = German for English "and"