Seek God First

Sri Ramana Maharshi

10-10-1945 morning

I came across the following in Letters to my friends by Gilbert Henry Gedge in the September 1945 issue of Science of Thought Review.

"Again, people sometimes say that when they are at work there is no time to be thinking about God; their mind has to be on the job."

"Now, friend, I say to you once again that for all these different matters the remedy is the same. Seek first the kingdom of God. When that is done, all things fall into their proper place and their proper perspective in our mind. God is in you and in all your circumstances now, and you and your own individual little world are in God now. Realization of that fact involves also the realization that all things in your life are in their right place and order, that the law of God rules your whole life and circumstances. Nothing whatever can be excluded from the rule of that law when we realize that our life is actually lived in God. Even when we are engaged in our daily work it helps to think of God, to recognize His presence with us, within and around us and in our job. It helps even more to see the job as God's work, for when we do so, we find new and better ways of doing it and are blessed in the doing."

I read this out to Bhagavan and he approved of it and even asked me to show it to Mr. Mahatani as bearing on last evening's discourse.

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Please refer to this previous post for Mr. Mahatani's question.