{"id":4067,"date":"2013-07-13T01:53:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:12","slug":"08-yogic-action-vol-14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14\/08-yogic-action-vol-14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14","title":{"rendered":"-08_Yogic-Action.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\" id=\"AutoNumber1\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\">\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><i><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><font size=\"3\">Yogic<br \/>\nAction <\/font><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-02 Works of The Mother\/-01_CWMCE\/-14_Words of The Mother_Volume-14\/_images\/v-14_p-36.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"212\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>From the standpoint of<br \/>\nYoga it is not so much what you do but how you do it that matters most. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is not so much the<br \/>\nact that matters, but the consciousness in which it is done. So all is well and<br \/>\ndo not torment yourself. My love is always with you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>24 March<br \/>\n 1964<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>From the point of view<br \/>\nof a spiritual life, it <span class=\"GramE\">is<\/span> not what you do that<br \/>\nmatters most, but the way in which it is done and the consciousness you put<br \/>\ninto it. Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the<br \/>\nDivine Presence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>When<br \/>\nall your actions are consecrated to the Divine, there will be no longer<br \/>\nactivities that are superior and activities that are inferior; all will have an<br \/>\nequal importance <\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> the value given them by the consecration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> 36<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"100%\" noshade align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Whatever one does, it<br \/>\nbecomes useful if one puts a spark of true consciousness into it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The consciousness one<br \/>\nhas is much more important than the act one performs. And the most apparently<br \/>\nuseless acts can become very productive if they are performed with the true<br \/>\nconsciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style='margin:0;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>10 August<br \/>\n 1966<\/span><\/i><i><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>It is the spirit and the<br \/>\nconsciousness from which it is done that makes an action yogic; it is not the<br \/>\naction itself.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Page<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style='font-family:\"Lucida Console\"'>&#8213;<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'> 37<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yogic Action &nbsp; From the standpoint of Yoga it is not so much what you do but how you do it that matters most. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14","wpcat-116-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}