Manifesting Divinity

Week 7

Question:
What to do when there is too much to do?

Reflection:

• If being overwhelmed by the amount of work one has to do leads to greater inefficiency, this emotion is utterly suffocating — cease from brooding over how much has to be done and just do
• If being overwhelmed by the amount of work one has to do leads to greater efficiency, this emotion is utterly salvaging — continue to think over how much has to be done and plans to raise oneself to take on the same
• When we are intensely aware of how much we have to do, we cultivate empathy towards others facing the same challenge — in empathy, we grow up from imposing our demands on others (i.e. instead of asking someone why they have not replied to an email, allowing them to reply when they can) and even ourselves (i.e. instead of sharing frustration verbally, sharing frustration mentally and then not at all)
• Everyone reading this sentence has a different capacity of how much they can do — expecting others to be as efficient or inefficient as we are, is living in ‘make believe’
• We can only do our best and doing so we enable ourselves to be insulated from all criticisms and compliments — think, what else could we have done
• Work never ends which means purification never ends — keep working and keep on creating chances for others to work (i.e. Bhagavan Rama delegating opportunities to the endless personalities in Ramayana)