How can we perform our duties and elevate ourselves unto Him? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today with examples from Indian culture!

When you are driving a car, the car is your God. When you are doing business in market, the market is your God. According to the culture of Bharat, we first make obeisance to the work we have to do. Before undertaking any work, we should regard that work as God. Tasmai Namah Karmane - Upanishads teach us this: “The work I have to do, I regard as God and make obeisance to God in that form”. Let us see the person who plays on tabla. Before he begins to play on it, he pays obeisance to tabla. The harmonium player will make obeisance to the harmonium before he starts. A dancer, before she begins her dance, will make obeisance to her ghunghru (musical anklets). Even a driver who is going to drive a lifeless car, before he holds the steering wheel, makes namaskaram (salutations) to the steering wheel! You do not have to go so far. While driving, if the car hits another person, immediately we make namaskaram to that person. The significance of all this is the faith and belief that God is present in all things. Thus, to regard the entire creation as the form of God and to perform your duty in that spirit is meditation.