WORK IS WORSHIP, WORSHIP IS NOT WORK
WORK IS WORSHIP, WORSHIP IS NOT WORK
Parminder Kaur
Abstract: Work means action which involves effort and exertion; It is the essence of life. No action means no life. Worship means giving reverence to some power. All enjoyment, all achievement and all progress come from this magic word 'work '. It is the primary thing around which whole life revolves. It also means the realization of God. Blessed is the person who has found his work and he needs no other blessings. Work spares us from evils like boredom, vice and need. There is no substitute for hard work. Without work life gets rotten. No wonder, when a person does his job with single-minded commitment and devotion, it is considered as good as worship. Worship makes us noble and pious so does work which helps us to build our character. As there is dignity in worship, so there is dignity in work. If a man engages himself with all his might in developing technologies or in the perfection of an art, it is as if he has been worshipping God in the churches and temples.
Keywords: Work, worship, religion, happine1ss
1 Introduction:
The most important question that has been haunting man since times immemorial is who created man and the universe. Though no precise and all convincing answer is available even today, yet one thing is commonly believed that some supreme power ,which different people call by different names and generally called God, created man as well as the universe. In earlier times when man had little control over the forces of nature and was unable to comprehend the various natural phenomena, he was mortally afraid of these. It is common to believe that man worships God in his different forms in order to express his gratefulness to that supreme power which not only created him but also gave him everything and virtually made him the master of the universe. However, I believe that it was not as much due to the sense of gratitude that man started worshipping God as due to the fear of natural
Parminder Kaur
Abstract: Work means action which involves effort and exertion; It is the essence of life. No action means no life. Worship means giving reverence to some power. All enjoyment, all achievement and all progress come from this magic word 'work '. It is the primary thing around which whole life revolves. It also means the realization of God. Blessed is the person who has found his work and he needs no other blessings. Work spares us from evils like boredom, vice and need. There is no substitute for hard work. Without work life gets rotten. No wonder, when a person does his job with single-minded commitment and devotion, it is considered as good as worship. Worship makes us noble and pious so does work which helps us to build our character. As there is dignity in worship, so there is dignity in work. If a man engages himself with all his might in developing technologies or in the perfection of an art, it is as if he has been worshipping God in the churches and temples.
Keywords: Work, worship, religion, happine1ss
1 Introduction:
The most important question that has been haunting man since times immemorial is who created man and the universe. Though no precise and all convincing answer is available even today, yet one thing is commonly believed that some supreme power ,which different people call by different names and generally called God, created man as well as the universe. In earlier times when man had little control over the forces of nature and was unable to comprehend the various natural phenomena, he was mortally afraid of these. It is common to believe that man worships God in his different forms in order to express his gratefulness to that supreme power which not only created him but also gave him everything and virtually made him the master of the universe. However, I believe that it was not as much due to the sense of gratitude that man started worshipping God as due to the fear of natural
References: 1. Bhagawad Gita, Chapter18 2. Slok Bhagat Kabir ji, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, page-1376 3. Getanjali by Rabindranath Tagore 4. Death the Leveller by James Shirley 5. Voices of the Night (A Psalm of Life) By H. W. Longfellow