work is workship

Many are the blessings of work. All that humanity has achieved during the course of generation was a result of hard work over long period of time. Man-to-day boasts that he is the highest of all creatures, that he is the roof and crown of all created beings. He owes all his greatness to hard work, it is the unique privilege of man to change and master his environment through hard and constant work. Man is human because he is capable of hard work, while the animal is not. Nothing is denied to hard and persistent work. It was Carlyle again who said that, "Genius is but another name for the capacity to take infinite pains." All human civilization and culture is the result of hard work. Our agriculture, our fine clothes, our palacial buildings; our art and literature, our science, our conquest of outer space, have all been achieved through hard work. Today man has conquered nature and has acquired powers fit for the gods. It is all great blessings of hard work. Indeed, work is worship. That work is a great blessing is fully released only by those who are subjected to enforce idleness, for one reason or the other. For serious offences, the punishment is solitary confinement and such criminals are allowed no work. Their life becomes a burden for the, tedious and boring. Absence of work becomes a severe punishment for them. This is so because work is necessary for the enjoyment of life. Without work recreation itself loses its meaning. Unemployment, or enforced idleness for whatever reason, is the greatest misfortune that can befall a man. In this connection, we are reminded of the well-know proverb, "Empty mind is the Devils workshop." Work is necessary to keep man way from mischief. Those who have no work to do are likely to go astray and fall into evil ways. Delinquency is wide-speared among boys who do not go to school, who are not kept busy at their books. Criminals are largely drawn from the ranks of the unemployment or of those who are victims of enforced