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It contains one of the highest flights of the Vedanta. When the
Vyadha finished his teaching, the Sannyasin felt astonished. He
said, “Why are you in that body? With such knowledge as yours
why are you in a Vyadha’s body, and doing such filthy, ugly
work?” “My son,” replied the Vyadha, “no duty is ugly, no duty
is impure. My birth placed me in these circumstances and
environments. In my boyhood I learnt the trade;I am unattached,
and I try to do my duty well. I try to do my duty as a
householder, and I try to do all I can to make my father and
mother happy. I neither know your Yoga, nor have I become a
Sannyasin, nor did I go out of the world into a forest;
nevertheless, all that you have heard and seen has come to me
through the unattached doing of the duty which belongs to my
position.”
There is a sage in India, a great Yogi, one of the most
wonderful men I have ever seen in my life. He is a peculiar man,
he will not teach any one; if you ask him a question he will not
answer. It is too much for him to take up the position of a
teacher, he will not do it. If you ask a question, and wait for
some days, in the course of conversation he will bring up the
subject, and wonderful light will he throw on it. He told me
once the secret of work, “Let the end and the means be joined
into one.” When you are doing any work, do not think of anything
beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote
your whole life to it for the time being. Thus, in the story,
the Vyadha and the woman did their duty with cheerfulness and
whole – heartedness; and the result was that they become
illuminated, clearly showing that the right performance of the
duties of any station in life, without attachment to results,
leads us to the highest realisation of the perfection of the
soul.
It is the worker who is attached to results that grumbles about
the nature of the duty which has fallen to his lot; to the
unattached worker all duties are equally good, and form
efficient instruments with which selfishness and sensuality may
be killed, and the freedom of the soul secured. We are all apt
to think too highly of ourselves. Our duties are determined by
our deserts to a much larger extent than we are willing to
grant. Competition rouses envy, and it kills the kindliness of
the heart. To the grumbler all duties are distasteful; nothing
will ever satisfy him, and his whole life is doomed to prove a
failure. Let us work on, doing as we go whatever happens to be
our duty, and being ever ready to put our shoulders to the
wheel. Then surely shall we see the Light!
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