Reading Swami Vivekanandas works in my free time has helped me solve many queries and mysteries behind the daily struggle that we all go through; in this article u would find excerpts from Swami Vivekananda’s Writings
‘This is one Central Idea in Bhagavad-Gita: Work incessantly, but unattached.’
So our ancient Scripture wants us to forego any trace of laziness and to put our heart and soul into work. Yet that is not enough , we think work brings to us frustrations and miseries but actually it is our expectations attached to that work that do that, Even the most noble deeds will get us into misery if not done dispassionately. Detachment is the clue. But u may ask how may it be possible to be dispassionate about your Animations, Is it not from your deepest passions that u have chosen the art, Indeed it is a difficult question and even more difficult to practice. I understood the practicality when I realized how many iterations it takes to get your scene likable to your director, Passion helps you only initially to do the work as u would be pleased too, and many a times the animation which you do is good in itself but it fails because it doesn’t go with the sequence, or your director has a different set of ideas that he wants to implement, He would have probably explained it to you during Kickoff but blinded by passion u did what wasn’t at all required. So after a couple of iterations u start feeling frustrated and start cursing your Director. Frustrations happen when you expect something such as appreciation, name, fame or Money from your work .Your failure in getting appreciation, name, fame or Money puts you into frustration and misery. You may again ask ‘wouldn’t detachment mean a loss of concentration and a careless approach?’ I would say u misunderstand the meaning of being detached. You don’t detach yourself from your interest in the work but you forego the outcome of your efforts. You make every moment of your working hours as enjoyable since you are living for the moment’s happiness and not toiling for something which the future is going to bring. Remember the Joy you used to gain as a child making sand castles on the beach or drawing your favorite cartoon characters, you enjoyed because you never worried whether your castle is going to be wiped out by the next big wave. Do your animation for the sake of doing it and find tremendous results (even though u would expect none).It would feel like a surprise package from Santa. Enjoy…
