| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE GUNAS - BUILDING UP AND BREAKING DOWN |
| The state of the sattvik man should become like this. Sattva should pervade
every pore of his being. When sattva become so much our nature, we would cease to be proud of it. This is one
way to make sattva harmless, to achieve victory over it.
24. Another way is to give up even the attachment to sattva. Egoism and attachment are two distinct things. But the difference between them is rather fine. One can understand it more readily by means of an illustration. Even when the egoism, the pride in sattva, disappears, the attachment to it persists. Take breathing once more as an example. Thought we are not proud of our breathing, we still have a great desire to breathe. It is impossible to hold the breath even for five minutes. Though the nose is not proud of breathing, it goes on taking in air. There is an amusing story about Socrates. His nose was flat and people used to laugh at it. But the witty philosopher said, "Mine is the most beautiful of noses. These nostrils are wide and take in a lot of air and therefore they are the best." It means that, though the nose is not proud of breathing, it desires to breathe.
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