By saturating work with love, it can be transformed into worship.
When such work is offered to God, it gets sanctified into puja
(sacramental worship). This makes it free from ego.
It is also freed from the earthly desire for success and the earthly
fear of failure. When you can feel that when you have done the
work as best as you can, your puja is complete. It is
then for Him who has accepted the puja to confer on you what
He considers best. This attitude will make the work unattached.
Regular practice of this discipline will render the consciousness
clear and pure. Without this practice, however prospective your
career might be, however much you may accumulate the wherewithal of a
comfortable life, to whatever heights of authority you may have
climbed through the exercise of intelligence, your gains shall be
nothing, unless your every activity is suffused with the Divine
purity, that is inherent in consciousness.
- Divine Discourse,
Mar 6, 1977.