Don't work for appreciation, work for satisfaction

Most of the times we work to get appreciation from our boss, elders or from society. If we talk more than 90% of employee, leaders and social activist work to get appreciation from the people. If they don't get proper appreciation from the people whom they work, they stop working.

According to Bhagwad Gita this world is full of duality, sometimes you get appreciation and sometimes you get bad words from the same people, it's only matter of time.

In RAMAYANA we see when when Lord Rama was leaving to the exile from AYODHYA, Laxmana younger brother of Lord Rama became ready to go along with Lord Rama although he was not even ordered to go.

He does selfless service to Lord Rama for fourteen years without even sleep and when Ravana kidnapped mother Sita, Lord Rama shows his anger towards Laxmana and before that mother Sita also showed the same.

Although he could asked to Lord Rama, I am serving you selflessly, I left palace and comfort and come along with you in this dense forest and not slept for a single moment and instead of giving me appreciation of my work you both are showing anger on me.

But instead of all these, Laxmana kept silent and tolerated everything. Do you know why? Because he was not serving Lord Rama for appreciation, he was serving Lord Rama for satisfactions.

If you work for appreciation, you might not get satisfactions but if you are satisfied with your work, whether you get appreciation or not does not matter for you.

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।

मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥ 2.47 ॥

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.

Most of the people only quotes the first part of the verse, but they are not aware of the other parts. How to act and not to be attached to the result.

If we perform our duty nicely and detached from our result then it is the proper meaning of the verse.

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