| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONCLUSION - THE FULFILLMENT OF FRUIT - THE GRACE OF THE LORD |
| 8.
Machindranath told Gorakhnath, "Wash this boy and bring him
back." Gorakhnath caught hold of the boy's feet, dashed his
head against a stone and spread him on a hedge to dry. Machindranath
asked him, "Have you brought the boy washed?" Gorakhnath
answered, "I have washed him white and put him out to
dry." Is a boy washed this way? We don't wash clothes and boys
in the same way. There is a lot of difference between the two.
So, too, there is a lot of difference between renouncing rajasik and tamasik actions and renouncing saattvik actions. Saattvik actions should be renounced in a special way. Unwise actions can only produce topsy turvy results. Tukaram has said, "Desire to indulge wells up within from sacrifice.When we make little sacrifice, a great desire to indulge comes and sits on our necks. Thus even the little sacrifice is belied. To compensate for a little sacrifice, they put up huge monuments. Than these, that old hut was better. It was good enough. It is better to continue to keep one's coat and turban than to wear nothing but a lion-cloth and to surround oneself with wealth and pleasure. Therefore the Lord has explained separately the way of renouncing saattvik actions. All the saattvik actions must be done, but we should pluck and throw away the fruit. Some actions should be utterly rooted out, while of others only the fruit should be plucked and thrown away. If there is a stain on the body, it can be washed off : but if the skin itself is dark in color, what is the good of giving it a coat of white-wash? Let the dark color remain. Why do you pay attention to it? Do not consider it inauspicious. |
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