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A Disciplined Life Frees The Mind > Page1
1. Dear brothers, we are slowly approaching the end of our study. In the Fifteenth Chapter, we saw the complete science of life. The Sixteenth Chapter was a supplement. In the mind of man and in society which is its image, a great war rages between two attitudes, two ways of living, two sets of qualities. Of these we should develop the divine qualities - that was the teaching contained in the first supplement, the Sixteenth Chapter.
To day, in the Seventeenth Chapter, we come to the second supplement. Looked at in one way, we can call this the yoga of "karya-krama," of regularity in action. The Gita here indicates our daily routine. Today we shall examine the programme for every day.
2. If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. Our daily actions should proceed on an accepted basis. It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free. The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. Keep before your eyes the example of the jnani, the seer.
The Sun is the teacher of the seers. The Lord taught karma-yoga first to the Sun. Then, from the Sun, it came to Manu, that is, to man the thinker. The Sun is free and independent. He is regular - it is in this regularity that the essence of his freedom lies. We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
About Author : Acharya Vinoba Bhave
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