| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
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disorderly actions become lifeless. Into such action, tamas
enters. Through it, no noble thing can be created. From it, no fruit
will grow. Even though there is no desire of fruit in performing yajna,
it ought to yield noble fruit? If the mind is not in the action, if
the spirit is not in it, then it becomes a burden. How then can it
yield good fruit? If the outward action goes wrong, it must be
because the mind did not accompany it.
Therefore, pour your soul into the action. Join the outward with the inward. In order to discharge our debt to creation, we must produce noble fruit. One should not allow action to become fruitless; that is why it is essential that inward feeling should combine with outward action according to rule and order. 13. When in this way, disinterestedness finds place in our hearts and fruitful action goes on according to rule, our mind and heart will become increasingly pure. What is the touchstone of inward purity? Examine the outward action, if that is not flawless and beautiful, we may take it there is impurity in the mind too. When does beauty come out in action? On the action performed with pure heart and unstinted effort, the Lord sets the seal of His approval, His grace. When the Lord, well-pleased, touches the action with the hand of love, beauty appears there. Beauty is the grace of the Lord granted to pure and unremitting effort. |
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