| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE GUNAS - BUILDING UP AND BREAKING DOWN |
| How to determine one's svadharma? 17. "How is then svadharma to be determined?" If some one asks this, the easy answer would be, "It comes naturally of itself." It is born into the world with us. The very idea of going in search of it is strange. When a man is born, his svadharma too is born with him. As a child has no need to go in search of his mother, no none need go in search of svadharma. It is ours, right from the beginning. The world was there before we were born; it will be there when we are no more. The mighty stream flowed before we were born into it and it will flow after we are gone. The service of the parents to whom I was born, the service of the neighbors amongst whom I find myself, these duties come to me naturally. Then my other obligations are matters of everyday experience. I feel hungry, I feel thirsty. So to give food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty becomes my duty, by nature. Hence, it is never necessary to go in search of svadharma, or some form of service or compassion. Wherever there is a search for svadharma, one may be certain that some paradharma or adharma is going on, that some one else's duty or some wrong action is being performed. The servant need not go in search of service; it comes to him unsought. But one thing he should remember; that is, that everything that comes to him without an effort on his part is not necessarily right. A farmer comes to me at night and says, "Come, let us shift that bound a few feet away. |
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