The Most Important Thing

Not seeing the forest for the trees From a Parisamvada by Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra

- Dr. Jayadeva

We have an interest in many things in life. The result of this is that most of the time, we do not do anything properly. We do not put ourselves fully and totally into an activity. Of course, for the others, one would not admit this. But then, if you have to do justice to the job at hand, it rarely occurs. One of the factors that is involved is a lack of sense of dedication. Had we thought on these things and decided for ourselves that this thing is the most important, then the spirit of dedication can come. But we have so many things which are important that we are not able to create a deep kind of an interest. So, generally what happens is that our involvements are too many and we are attached to a lot of things. In these conditions, to take