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Commentary on the Isavasya Upanishad : 17. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= ======================================================================== Tuesday, October 04, 2022. 05:30.  Part-3. Post -17. ========================================================================= Our concept of activity involves a result that has to follow from what we do. We become habituated to this vehement impulsion. It becomes part and parcel of our very life itself, and then we never feel that we are impelled to work. We begin to feel that ‘we'  work. ‘I' do the work. No one says, “I am forced to work. I am compelled.” Though originally it is a sort of compulsion consequent upon the empirical relationship between ourselves and the world of externality, our habituation to this continuous activity, day in and day out throughout our life, creates a peculiar psychological circumstance which makes us wrongly feel that we do the work, even though we are forced to work. And inasmuch as ‘we' do the