Most people labour, very few work || Acharya Prashant, on 'The Fountainhead' (2019) 

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"Labour is what you do to satisfy your body and mind, work is what you do to satisfy your consciousness"

"Humans being terribly uncertain about themselves,yet manage to carry on with life in most confident way"

The purpose of all human progress, all technological development is to give you more and more free time and resources and space to do real work. Labor you do in order to satisfy the body. Work is that which you do to satisfy your consciousness.

Not only is a free of all social influences, he is also free of his own internal physical tendencies. You already have a lot of things in your life and in your mind that you consider to be true and an equal number of things that you consider to be definitely false. In our own eyes, we all have a solid floor beneath our feet. In our own perception, we all stand on firm ground. What does that ground comprise of? Our beliefs, which we do not call as beliefs, our perceptions, which we do not call as perceptions. The influences which we have gathered, which we do not call as influences. All the illusions that we nurture, which we do not call as illusions. What do we call them? We call them as truth. We say "I know, I understand, I realize, I see" Don't we use these words? When a clean mind expresses itself, that expression is worthy of worship. Learn to dismiss yourself. Learn to slay your confidence. And obviously the confidence is not much. That's the story of our lives. We, too, are never certain about anything. But that's the very curious thing about human beings. In spite of being deeply uncertain about themselves, yet they manage to carry on with life in a most confident way. In fact, not only are we confident of ourselves, our confidence reaches out to other people and tries to convince them of beliefs we ourselves our deeply uncertain of. Demolish; that's your job. What is work? Work is what you do to satisfy, what you may call, your gaping consciousness or thirsty soul. That is what defines work. Keeping this strict criteria in mind, I have to do that which will offer me contentment. And obviously, this has to be placed at a much higher level than the labor of living. The purpose of all human progress, all technological development is to give you more and more free time and resources and space to do real work. Labor you do in order to satisfy the body. Work is that which you do to satisfy your consciousness. Technology is there so that you have to do minimum amount of labor. Instead if you start increasing your physical demands and appetite and start using technology and more and more of technology to just feed and stoke your physicality, then its a great ruin. The trick is to satisfy the physical with the least amount of labor, so that you have time to do the real work. Labor is a nuisance, labor is like a tax you have to pay for living. Work is the delight of life. You understand the difference between these two? Most people do not know any work. They know only labor, because they work only for the sake of the body. If you work for the sake of the body, it is labor. When I say body, that includes all the physical tendencies. It is the physical tendencies that want you to consume more and more. If you work for the sake of consumption, then you are just laboring. You belong to the category of animals and you are far worse than animals, because animals labor far less than many human beings do. So even the most hardworking person, even the fellow who has reached great places in society with massive achievements, might just be laboring like animals. In fact that is what happens, in most of the times, in most of these cases. When you see a hard worker, you must ask him and ask yourself "What is the hard work for?" Is the hard work real work? Or is it just labor? If the hard work belongs to the dimension of labor, then it deserves no respect. It is a good question to ask yourself "How much of my effort is labor and how much is work?"

Pranam acharya shree

This is gold

Naman Acharya ji

Excellent

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Self-realization is the key.

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What would be an example of such work leading to attainment? In practical words?

That's why " Labour pain " 😁

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