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Living does not simply mean dragging yourself around from day-to-day, from bed to work, back home & to bed again.
The whole process repeats itself until the weekend comes.
Then you drag yourself to some recreation in the hope of forgetting yourself,
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which is why recreation becomes so important.
In fact, your whole life can be a recreation.
Someone once asked a Swami, ‘Swamiji, do you not take any holidays? You seem to be working everyday.’
In fact, the Swami’s life is one long holiday.
If you enjoy what you do, life is very simple.
If you do not enjoy what you do, then you have to do something in order to enjoy, which can be very costly.
On the other hand, any pleasure that comes out of your maturing process is a different type of joy. Not hurting someone or
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When one does Not have wisdom, one behaves like a leaf of a ‘touch-me-not’ plant, which shrinks its leaves at the slightest touch of a drop of water.
The drop of water is compared to calamities that come into our life.
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When one becomes like a ‘touch-me-not’ plant, one becomes sensitive to even small provocations.
One starts whining at small things, shrinks when calamities come & blasts those who touch him.

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When one has abundant wisdom, one behaves like a leaf of a lotus plant.
The same drop of water which could shrink the leaf of a ‘touch-me-not’ plant, does not even stay on the surface of a lotus leaf.
The drop immediately slides down the leaf.
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People normally find a hundred excuses for Not performing,
doing Spiritual practices like Pūjā, or
Visiting the Mandirā.
‘I am unwell’,
‘I cannot afford rituals’,
‘I have no time’,
‘I do not know the chants’,

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there is no place at home where I can worship’
& So on.
Normally,
people feel Pūjā is a mechanical action,
Which has to be ‘got over & done with’ as part of one’s daily routine (Dinacaryā).
People say,
‘pūjā kar ḍālī’ (Hindi),
or
‘pūjā karī nākhī’ (Gujarati),
which indicates, that one has finished it with a sense of relief that it is over, rather than with a sense of fulfilment of having done it well.
Our attitude should be ‘Pūjā kar lī’ ~ completed (with good feelings derived from it).

When one Matures, One realizes that Pūjā
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