There has been lots of literature on un-conditional love and un-conditional service. Yet, most of us hardly experience or express such way of being. It looks as if everything needs to be somehow related to – “What is there for me?” This is acknowledged by many leadership and social theories. It appears to many that if this aspect is not catered to, things do not generally work.
But, there is a strange fulfillment involved in being unconditional. When we do something without any agenda of getting anything back, it helps us to express our real self. For nothing in nature is for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water. Sun does not give heat to itself.
When a painter paints a work of art, she does not think about what she gets in return. The ecstasy she derives by seeing the colors mingle together to give that right shade she needs is beyond words.
When we do our best work in the office, do that extra bit to really make an impact, we are not actually motivated by the salary we would get at the end of the month. It is something else that keeps us going – that inner desire of the real self to make an impact – to serve – to leave a legacy. It feels good that we did a good work. We played our role to the fullest.
Yes, the recognition, fortune and success that follows from a work well done, are always there. They definitely make us happy. But they are just outcome of the endeavors done in the past.
It is easy for us to relate to the fact that any work of art is done out of the pure feeling of unconditional love and passion. The poets words, the writer’s prose, the painter’s painting, the singer’s composition – never appears that the best of their forms would ever have been created for any material benefit out of them. Most of these divine forms of expressions bud out from a spark of un-conditional love of the real self.
But, then when we start relating to something related to business, or science and technology, we tend to equate everything to material aspect. But, if you see the most prolific inventors, and the biggest genius mankind ever saw in these areas, the same pattern re-surfaces. These great men and women, had tried to express their passion for certain aspects of their work and life, totally un-conditionally.
Every un-conditional gesture of empathy, compassion, and understanding, binds us with a strong bond of humanity. It helps us to break free from the constraints of mortality and mediocrity and raises ourselves to the infinite open space of the divinity.
The moment we start equating every thing to - “what is it for me” , things become really superficial and boring. There need to be a factor of being “underserved”, which if inculcated in our being, makes things magical!
Did we really deserved being born were we did, and the wonderful upbringing we enjoyed? Did we really deserve inheriting this wonderful planet of ours? Did we really deserve the peace and prosperity of the country we inherited? Do we really deserve the perfect human living equilibrium of the ecosystem that exists in this planet, in the center otherwise hostile outer space?
If we go for a little introspection, we would realize that the most important, and dear aspects of our lives are not earned by us in silos. They just happened by themselves, by the intervention of something out of our comprehension. Did we even think of repaying that Field? Or do we have any idea how can we ever think of repaying that bigger force?
If our existence is itself the result of that unconditional coincidence, we might have a good ground to forgo our urge of “what is there for me”. It might be that just by being un-conditional we are paying the rent for our existence and our happiness in this life!
It might make sense being unconditional in our life. It certainly adds meaning to our existence.
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