Dedication, being an attitude of the mind, it is within the reach of people in any walk of life. Parents looking after children, farmers producing food crops, artisans engaged in their craft, all can learn to carry out their programmes in a dedicated spirit. What they have to do, is to regard, whole-heartedly, their talents and the related environment as tangible forms of the Lord's own Power and Grace. As the new value penetrates into their personality, its natural opposites, viz. ignoble and injurious habits become neutralized and finally uprooted. Human relationships and business policies then stand freed from duplicity and greed. Worship is not inconsistent with the feeling of holiness. So the need to stop daily occupations in their purified state, as worship, does not arise. What is transcended is their earlier restricted use as means to inner refinement. They now remain as eminently satisfying and ever-open channels for manifesting higher values. We cannot rightly attribute the position of an "actor" to such a devotee. He will himself repudiate it. For in his mature experience he sees only "One actor," the Lord Himself, and not any individual, however strong and majestic he may appear to his contemporaries.
-Swami Nisreyasananda - VISION THAT SUPPLEMENT AND BALANCES [MAN AND HIS MIND, p 189]
