| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| ANOTHER SUPPLEMENT : PROGRAMME FOR THE SEEKER |
The yoga of activity - three kinds4. To understand this, let us first see what "yajna" means. Every day we make use of Nature. If a hundred of us crowd together in one spot for a day, that part of Nature appears spoilt. We foul the atmosphere and mess up the whole place. In eating food we consume creation, little by little. We should make up for it. It is for this that the institution of yajna is created.What is the purpose of yajna? To make up for the harm that has been caused to creation - this is yajna. We have been ploughing the earth for thousands of years and thus impoverishing it. Yajna says, "Return its strength to the soil. Plough the land and feed it with sunlight. Give it manure." To make good the loss, that is one purpose of yajna. Another purpose is to purify the things we use. We use the well and make the place all round it dirty and slushy. This part of creation, thus disfigured, we should clean up. We have to remove the dirt. We should make up for the loss and we should purify. In addition to these, we should do a little direct construction. This too is included in yajna. If we wear clothes, we should spin a little every day and make something new. Growing cotton, raising crops, spinning and weaving, all these are acts of yajna, sacrifice. Whatever we do in a yajna should not be done for our own sake but with the feeling that it is one's duty to make up for the loss that one has caused. |
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