தயை - Compassion;
க்ஷாந்தி - acceptance, forgiveness;
அநஸூயை - being without jealous;
சௌசம் - cleanliness;
அநாயாஸம் - effortlessly performing;
மங்களம் - blissfulness;
அகார்ப்பண்யம் - not being miser
அஸ்ப்ருஹா - detachment
The above are 8 characteristics which Maha Periyava lists that one should have.
Here we take up 'அநாயாஸம்'. We may have heard in sports commentaries. The commentators would glorify a player playing the game effortlessly - அநாயாஸமாக விளையாடினார்.
For, He addresses about stress.
More than the real diseases, it's more the psychosis, unwarranted tension and fear which are the real killers. The statistics of those succumbing to stress is mind-boggling.
We see in life people are too worried, tensed even about trivial issues and make out to the world as if they carry like Hercules all the world's burden. Too serious and cause others also see their pressures shooting up.
Maha Periyava expresses this அநாயாஸம் as one quintessential of all the above attributes that every one ought to imbibe.
○When one performs, works, the aesthetic of the performance, the work should speak, be visible. Not to say remain lazy and without doing one's wont duty. Do it like a Swan. When you see it floating on water, you will see it so equipoised and not any strain on its countenance. Whereas, it keeps its feet fluttering in clockwork precision under water.
○When you anchor yourself in the Self, you would do much more productively.
○At the same time, you don't cause strain to others around also.
○Not to say there's no demanding in any work. Yes, there would be. Love to do it.
While Khalil Gibran puts it bluntly,
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms from those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half our hunger."
Eckhart Tolle sums it so beautifully :
"Life isn't as serious as you make it out to be."
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