TO PERFORM GREATLY SMALL THINGS

TO PERFORM GREATLY SMALL THINGS - by Huberto Rohden

 

 

 

Almost all people understand that the spiritual initiation process consists in a certain esoteric rite, that the purpose of which transfer the common man, automatically, into a new world, making him an initiated, in 24 hours! They confuse certain external techniques with the inner reality of the candidate to initiation.

 

 

One day, two men went to visit Mahatma Gandhi and asked him to initiate them spiritually. The great master of India accepted them in his meditation environment, and then he put them in charge to sweep the patio covered with dry leaves. After this, sent one of the candidates to peel potatoes for lunch, while the other was asked to chop wood to light the fire. After lunch he sent the two to a neighbouring village to clean the toilets.

 

 

And these activities continued for several days.

 

 

The two were expecting at any moment that Gandhi invite them, finally, to the longed spiritual initiation ceremony; they expected, that Gandhi in a secluded area with them in a mysteriously lit environment, impregnated with scent of incense and the sound of sacred melodies and magic formulas, to start granting them some extraordinary powers.

 

 

But none of this happened.

 

 

Who hope to accomplish great things in his life, maybe have to wait a lifetime discovering nothing great to perform, and so, tired of waiting for the great and extraordinary things, fails to perform small and ordinary things - and his life became a failure...

 

 

In reality, nothing of great exists in the objective world of quantities. Great things exists only in the subjective world of qualities. To perform greatly the little things of every day life is the only way to accomplish great things, because every task can be covered with colours, depending on the person who performs it. Every task itself is neutral, colourless, amorphous; is neither good nor bad, ethically; is not small or great, because this choice is limited in comprehension, intelligence and man's view on the task to perform.

 

 

All greatness or smallness is a product of the person that practice the respective tasks or any act. The greatness or smallness is in attitude, intention, in the inner quality of those who practice it. To sweep the streets or split wood is not smaller task than to govern a country or educate people.

 

 

Who performs with magnanimity of soul any thing is great; who does with littleness of soul, or unwillingly that same thing is small-minded.

 

 

When the two candidates to initiation did grudgingly the ordinary things that Gandhi charged them to do, they did little things; if they had made with love and enthusiasm these same things, would have done great things.

 

 

 

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