How do we make our action powerful? How can we be powerful in action? How do we make our thoughts powerful? We need to make our actions meaningful, purposeful, goal-oriented and spiritual. Baba advises whatever action we undertake, first offer a prayer and then start.
In any business, medical practice and teaching or for that matter in any work that we may do, once we pray and then start our action, it becomes worship. Work is then transformed into worship, according to Baba. So the first stipulation to be powerful in our activity is to begin our work with an offering of prayer. We can see this in everyday life - truck drivers pray and do namaskaram and then only start the vehicle. Similarly, dancers on the stage bow down to the ground before starting their performance. Musicians also do likewise. All this is because the action to be undertaken will be blessed and successful - the action will never be left half-finished.
So in ordre to ensure that our actions match our thoughts and we carry on until the end successfully and reach our goal, we seek God's blessings and bow down to our actions.
Tasmai Namah Karmani
I bow down to my actions. I bow down to my duty. I consider this duty holy. I consider this duty a ritual. I consider this duty as an offering unto you, Oh Lord!
That is what is meant by Tasmai Namah Karmani.
Let all actions be dedicated unto God, make them successful and are thus offered with a spirit of surrender; to render them selfless. For this, we need God's blessings.
That aspect of Divinity which blesses our actions and to whom we pray is Mahalakshmi. We also pray to Mahadurga, the Godhead that blesses our thoughts.
(From the book "Sai-Chology" by Prof. K. Anil Kumar)
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