If we look for some easy work, are we running away from hard work in the name of finding a work according to our nature?

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Any other questions are coming? So, if we find our doing whatever job is there as difficult, for example someone finds coding difficult, does that mean that one is running away from responsibilities wanting to take the easy way out or is it actually our nature? Generally speaking, if we start searching for our nature, the mind will say whatever you are doing is not your nature. Because any activity that we try to do, if we go deep into it, it requires effort. In my serious talk, writing articles, I read one quote of William Woods, he said, I spend my morning very productively today.
In my poem, after breakfast, I put a comment. And just before lunch, I deleted the comment. So, 3 hours, he was just thinking whether that comment should be there or not.
And he said, I spend my time productively. That is considered, 3 hours deleting whether the comment should be there or not, is considered a productive use of time. So the point I am making is, anything that we go in deeply, it requires hard work.
It requires a lot of hard work. So, so, there are authors who have written, he wrote a novel, he wrote the novel, he wrote the novel in 6 months. And it took 3 years to write the conclusion of the novel.
And he wrote and rewrote the conclusion 300 times. Till he got the, he said, getting the world’s right. I got the world’s right.
So the point is, anything which we take up, that is going to be difficult. So if we simply rely on our feelings alone, to decide whether something is my nature or not, then we will always be like a rolling stone, never be able to go deep in anything. So we need to observe the consistency of our feelings.
Generally speaking, whatever we are going to do, we should do that is going to be difficult, I think. Anything. Even if we are doing something according to our nature, and even if we find it stimulating, it is not that we always find it stimulating.
I like writing. I love it. There are times when I also write a writer’s block.
I think, I love it. It happens like that. Anything you can.
So, what we need to do is, observe the consistency. So, it can be a particular activity, and we find it difficult. So that difficulty can be because of multiple reasons.
Just that we don’t have the competence for it. In terms of, there are certain skills required. So for example, if I am to write, I don’t know basic grammar.
Then, I stop you. Should I write this, should I write that? Better spend some time, learn the grammar. And then come back again.
So there are certain things, certain skills which can be developed. Putting a certain amount of time to develop the skills can improve a product. In other cases, it may be that, there are certain skills which are just not developed.
We just can’t digest. We just can’t digest. We can’t learn.
So if that is what is happening, and it is happening consistently, that means, first of all, it is just the same feeling of discomfort or burden that is consistently there. And secondly, even if we try to learn some skills to counter that, we are not very easily able to learn it. So then, we could say that maybe this is not my nature.
But in general, if we are looking for something which is according to our nature, we also have to be cautious. Because the gas will always be on every side except the business side. Personally, I would like to add one more point to the answer of this.
What you said is perfect. The education system in which we have come up has not allowed us to explore ourselves and understand ourselves fully. And therefore, the very first job which you want to take, it would be a premature understanding for us to be able to understand our nature.
And only when we have spent sufficient time and used a consistent observation in our 30s or 35s, then only actually we start understanding who we are, what we are going at, what we can actually do. Is that also right? Oh, very good point. A VTEC fresher should not think like that at all.
If he has done a VTEC engineering or whatever it is, then whatever the flow, he has to… I mean, you have to make the man of the man’s bargain. Since you did not start your education system according to the way it was supposed to be, the Vedic style, wherein the full personality the child knows, now you have to grow with the thing. And once you have settled down 5-6 years, 10 years you have spent, now you can see what is your calling in this.
Exactly. We are… We cannot go against the system entirely. So, it’s unlikely that we are going to get a sudden stroke of enlightenment.
Now I know my teacher. Yesterday I was in the room, it would have been nice. It’s unlikely to happen like that.
So, unless we are… Again, within our nature also, we should feel consistently attracted to something. We are consistently looking for something. So, it will take some time for us to discover that.
And it’s better that if you have a particular ambition, to go along with that job. And if you feel that something is not our nature, we don’t have to become totally consumed with the job thing that I have to rise in the career in this particular job only. We can do it at a basic satisfactory level.
And explore other things. We shouldn’t give it up thinking that I’ll find my nature afterwards. It’s unlikely.
And also, there are also degrees of incompatibility. That means, it’s… Because… Because we have improved the various factors, there may not be one thing which is fully our nature. So, there can be some jobs which are more compatible and some jobs which are more incompatible.
Or even within a particular job, certain things may be more according to our nature. For example, we are working in software. Some people are very good at coding.
And they like to do the technical part. Some people are not all that great at coding. And they are struck with more team building and delegating and social skills.
Project management. So, when they focus on developing social skills, they move on with it. So, that means, even within a particular job, we can oscillate towards gravity, not oscillate.
Oscillate is a non-verbal term. Gravitate is monatural. We can gravitate towards that which is more open.
So, rather than just assuming that this is incompatible with you, try to find within this what is compatible. What is really compatible. And it’s very unlikely that you will get a fully compatible job in what you are so proud of.
But we can try to find out what is as compatible as possible. And more on that. So, no sudden changes.
Another point we must not forget is that 35-14 has become a little closer because we do need to start observing. To understand our nature also requires some amount of sattva-guna. And in practice, bhakti, studying, that also refers to sattva-guna.
Then we can observe our nature. Otherwise, in prachopana, there is infatuation with what we want and there is frustration with what we don’t have. And these two illusions, raga and visha, infatuation and frustration, they just paralyze us.
They just blind us mentally. And we don’t perceive much behind our immediate likes and dislikes. We don’t really perceive our inner nature.
So it’s good to avoid all those rapid changes and try to come to the mode of goodness. And then we can observe our nature and act upon it.