Unemployment and the Unemployed
Karmayogi
There are certain rules of life that have no
exception, as when you eat hunger is quenched; at night exhaustion brings
overwhelming sleep; beauty attracts; power energises. One such rule is
overflowing interest in work – not a job that gives a salary – gets anyone
employment. This rule has no exceptions. Generally those who are unemployed
are, in the words of the former President of the World Bank, unemployable. Those
who have no skills, no education, no training are out of work. Worse still are
those who have no energy. The worst are those that hate work, whose ideal is NOT
to work. No wonder they are out of work and find it difficult to get
it.
The same is true of those who seek promotions. In spite of the
atmosphere of politics, intrigues, and corruption in some offices, he who has
acquired the knowledge of the higher post and is a willing worker, will
readily get promoted. Those who are denied promotions are those who crave for
the higher post with higher remuneration but are averse to work. Invocation of
Spirit readily gets one a job or longed for promotion because it energises his
faculties. If invocation is a spiritual method, changing the mental attitude to
work is a method of mind. To accomplish any work, high and desirable, tough and
impossible, or routine and flat, work methods can be devised in each of the
planes – physical, vital, mental, Spiritual or Supramental.
When the aim
is employment, it matters little which method brings the job. The best example I
have is of the man who said, “When I finish breakfast if I see a bed anywhere I
long to lie down and sleep”. By age 45, he had moved to 19 jobs and lost the
last one on Rs. 800. He is too much even for the Spirit, I thought, and
refrained from any initiative. Perhaps under pressure from his wife, he began to
pray for a job. He got one on Rs. 3000 and a daily allowance of 450 for 20 days
in a month. After enjoying it for three years, he reverted to his ideal and
lost the job, after which he avoided my relationship. Longing for work, one
unfailingly gets a JOB.