| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| A SUPPLEMENT - THE CONFLICT BETWEEN DIVINE AND DEMONIC TENDENCIES |
| 23.
Remembering all this, live an ordered life in creation, controlling
your senses. Do not follow your own whims. The good of the world
does not mean doing the things the world wants you to. To go on
increasing the population, or piling up wealth, is not progress.
Developing is not a matter of numbers. If society multiplies beyond
limit, people would start killing one another.
Man would first feed fat on animals and birds. Then, perhaps, on his own children. If he accepts that there is any value in desire and anger, there is not the least doubt that man will end up by eating man. Doing good to the world means showing mankind the pure and beautiful path of virtue. If by freeing itself from lust and anger the race of man disappears from the earth, it will reappear on Mars. There is no need to worry. The unseen God pervades the universe. He will take care of us. Therefore, first let us become free. There is no need to look very far into the future. Do not worry about all creation and entire human race. Increase your own moral power. Fling aside desire and anger, "Free you own neck from the noose first." This would be achievement enough. |
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