Surrender of attachment to results brings immediate peace, or so says the "Bhagavad Gita." Actually, that's easy to believe...it's the doing, though, that tells our tale. I'm guessing it's so difficult to do because our results are our wants. Plain and simple. And who has ever had a want that didn't feel like a need in the belly of our beast, i.e., our ego.
There are two sentences that, if we would live them...not repeat them endlessly by rote, but live them...would make our life worry free. The first is, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The other, "This, too, shall pass."
Interestingly, they each have the same uh-oh hook...both leave a lot of worried mind behind. Worried that in the passing and/or in God's will not mine, I might not get mine. Mine being, of course, my result, my want, my ego-victory need.
Learning to be detached from the results of action, as Easwaran puts it, is the necessary path to extinguishing the ego. There. That is what spiritual growth is all about...ego deflation in depth.
I'm convinced that ego deflation in depth begins and ends with putting others first...others primarily being those who give us a royal pain. The Gertrudes of our world. S/He who is an angel in our life, and we resist so mightily.
Love your enemy as yourself. Whoa...maybe there's only one sentence that, if we would live it, would make our life worry free.
Thank you.
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