Visualize a ray of the infinite light flowing into you from behind, through your medulla oblongata (at the base of the brain). Let it flow into your body and activate everything you do and say.
God is in all things the real Doer. Meditating on this thought will help you to realize its truth. Feel the divine ray flowing into and through your body. Concentrate especially on the forward flow of that energy to the point of super-conscious awareness between the eyebrows. Then imagine it flowing out to the world through the spiritual eye, blessing others, your surroundings and the whole world.
Then affirm deeply: “Thou, Lord, art the Doer. Energize, and, through energy, magnetize everything that I say and do.”
– Material Success Through Yoga Principles – by Swami Kriyananda
Kabir – The couplet
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transliterated:
Kabira Kiya Kutch Na Hote Hai, Ankiya Sab Hoye |
Jo Kiya Kutch Hote Hai, Karta Aur Koye ||
Translation:
Says Kabir – Nothing happens by my doing, it happens oblivious of my effort |
What does happen, happens because it must – driven by the Will of The Supreme ||
My understanding:
This, in essence, is the underlying principle of the collective soul – each individual soul is a part of the larger whole. Whole in itself, it still exists because of the larger collective existence, and finds completeness only as part of the whole.
So do our actions – when we act focused only on our self, driven by desire, and focused on possession, the act does not in any sense satisfy.
Action driven by the common good, for the benefit of a group or set larger than the self, however difficult or seemingly against the sense of desire (or Maya), does leave the self with an all-permeating sense of deep satisfaction, and an after-glow that lasts for ever.
So, as taught by the many saints this world has produced, let me once again exhort all of us to work to the good of everyone, and we will for sure find that good comes back to us in much greater quantity and for longer than if we had acted only for ourself!