Is it better to be inspired with the work itself instead of by its goal?
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thank you so wouldn’t just be working something with inspiration without having any goals will that be better? it varies see the point is that we have a mind inside us and the mind is unpredictable so the same thing may inspire us today and the same thing may not inspire us tomorrow sometimes say psychologists say that you are in your zone at that time we just work very very well irrespective of whether there is a goal or not and there can be other times when the goal is what what stirs us to move on so you know we when we go into a basically when we try to achieve anything major in our life we are to a large extent fighting against ourselves our own lethargy, our own indifference our own lack of discipline so when we are fighting in a war no one can go into a war with a frozen action plan if I am going to do war we have to see how the enemy is coming what strategy they are using how they are coming where they are strong where they are weak we need to have an action plan but it cannot be absolutely frozen action plan depending how the enemy is coming we have to respond accordingly so that’s why when we make a particular way of functioning as our absolutely standard way of functioning that may not work because the mind goes to different moves at different times so we have to see sometimes setting goals helps, sometimes not setting goals just going with the flow of things that also helps so we have to see practically how we can best deal with the mind and that capacity to discern how the mind is working right now, what my frame of mind is and how I should work at this stage that comes when we develop our spiritual consciousness because spiritual development helps us to see our inner territory better in 14.11 in the Gita Krishna says that all the doors of the senses they become illumined when we are situated in goodness so we can see inwards okay this thought is coming now, this desire is here this sort of negativity is here and once we see our inner territory then we can know how to deal with it, though we have to see what strategy works