Worrying about the results of work?

Acharya Prashant
3 min readFeb 29, 2020

Jesus very clearly says, “A tree is known by the fruits it has.” You might be thinking that you are doing something selflessly. But how much do you know yourself? You are assuming that you are doing something selflessly, that your action is right. That is your assumption. It is needed that you must check this assumption, is it not?

Do you not want to enquire the veracity of your assumption? And how do you enquire into your assumption? By seeing what actions are leading to.

‘Do the right thing, and forget about the result’ — is the utmost and final condition.

‘Do the right thing, and forget about the result’- that condition is possible only to someone who is already liberated of the future.

But those who are not liberated, those who have even an iota of doubt about the center from where their actions are arising, must use the results of the action to know the source of the action.

The source of the action, and the result of the action, correspond with each other.

If the action comes from the center of Holiness, then the results are bound to be Holy.

If the actions come from the center of Nothingness, then the results are bound to be Nothing.

Similarly, if the actions come from the center of vice, or

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