DAY 132
Work Without Being Stained
기원전 8~4세기
ORIGINAL
kurvann eveha karmāṇi jijīviṣec chataṁ samāḥ | evaṁ tvayi nānyatheto 'sti na karma lipyate nare
📜 THE VERSE
Doing your work, wish to live a hundred years. There is no other way — then action does not cling to you.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
Am I trying to flee my work, or to learn how not to be stained by it?
📝Reflection
This verse clears away the notion that awakening means dropping one's work. The path lies not in ceasing labor but in a mind that does its work without clinging to the outcome. It is one body with the Gita's teaching that we have the right to act but not to the fruit. A waterwheel turns by letting the water flow, not by damming it. To work and live a hundred years while that work leaves no stain on you — that is freedom.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
In one task today, set down worry about the result and stay for three minutes in the doing itself.
📖 Source:
Īśā Upaniṣad 2.
Sanskrit original with public-domain translations consulted; rendered independently by ONGO.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
