| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
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order to make our own this 'sat,' this name of the Lord, all
our actions should be pure and full of bhakti. Just as the soma
juice is filtered for the sacrifice, we too should examine all our
actions and efforts constantly and make sure that they are flawless. 'Tat' now remains. 'Tat' means 'that', the other, something unattached to Creation. The Supreme is different from Creation and unattached to it. As the sun rises, the lotuses bloom, the birds begin to fly and darkness disappears. But the sun remains afar, quite aloof from the changes it brings about. When we have attained detachment, when our actions are disinterested, we may take it that 'tat' has entered into our lives. 26. In this way the Gita teaches us how to take the Vedic Name 'om tat sat' and surrender all our actions to the Lord. Earlier, the Ninth Chapter spoke of surrendering all actions to the Lord. This is what is said in the shloka "yat karoshi yadashnaasi" - 'Whatever you do, whatever you eat.' In the Seventeenth Chapter, this idea is more fully dealt with, that the action which is surrendered to the Lord should be sattvik, for only then will it be worthy of being offered to the Lord - this is specially stressed here.
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