| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE GUNAS - BUILDING UP AND BREAKING DOWN |
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sattva becomes steady in our lives, the fruit will comes before us,
sometimes as success, sometimes as fame. But even this fruit we
should regard as something trivial. Not even one of its fruits does
the mango tree eat. However good, however sweet, however juicy the
mango, not eating it is sweeter than enjoyment.
26. Dharmaraja in the end cast away the joys of svarga, heaven which he had earned by a lifetime's practice of virtue. With this he crowned his life of sacrifice. He had the right to taste the sweetness of the fruit; but if he had tasted it, it would have come to an end. Kshine punye martyalokam vishanti - "When the merits earned are exhausted, they re-enter the world of morality." He is caught in this wheel again. How great was the sacrifice of Dharmaraja! It stands for ever before my eyes. Thus by constant practice of sattva we should achieve victory over its egoism. Standing aloof, and dedicating all fruits to the Lord, we should free ourselves from attachment to sattva. Only then can we say that we have achieved victory over sattva-guna.
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