| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONCLUSION - THE FULFILLMENT OF FRUIT - THE GRACE OF THE LORD |
Svadharma: the final analysis13. That is, we should completely give up rajasik and tamasik actions and perform saattvik actions. While doing so, we should retain the perception that we should not give up the saattvik action that comes to us in an easy and natural way, even though it has some defects. If there are defects, let them be. If you try to turn your back on them, other defects will overtake you.Let your crooked nose remain as it is. If you attempt to cut it and improve it, you will only make it more frightful. It is good enough as it is. Though defective, because they come naturally, saattvik actions should not be given up. They must be performed, but their fruit should be renounced. 14. There is one thing more to say. The actions that are not yours by nature, even if they seem to you easy to perform, do not perform them. Do only the actions that fall to you naturally. Do not run about and get caught in the whirlpool of other new actions. The actions that have to be artificially put together, keep away from them, however good they may be. Do not be beguiled by them. It is only when an action comes to us naturally that its fruit can be renounced. If a man runs about on all sides impelled by the greed for action, imagining that this is good, and that is good, how can he ever give up the fruit? In this way, his whole life would be a failure. |
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