Swami
Chinmayananda’s answer to why does a realized person work?
When one realizes the Truth, one becomes irresistibly vibrant
with life. In divine spontaneity, activity gurgles through him. The physical
equipment is generally too frail a reed to stand the blazing gush of love and
work; therefore, such prophetic masters generally fold up in a blinding flash
of brilliant service to mankind, carried on for a short duration of perhaps
twenty or thirty years.
Your question is, “Why should he work?” Can you tell me why the
Sun is illumining everything around it? Why fire is hot? Sugar sweet? Oceanic
waters salty? Why birds fly? Flowers bloom? Mirrors reflect? Air moves? Earth
revolves?… Are they not expressing their essential nature? Can any
one of them remain without their essential property? The realized saint is
not responsible for what he is doing. He is one with Life. And Life expresses
itself in action.
Swami Chinmayananda Saraswathi
