| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE GUNAS - BUILDING UP AND BREAKING DOWN |
| They do so because there is no help for it. Those who are educated and intelligent make
all sorts of excuses for avoiding labor. Some say, "Why waste time in bodily labor?" But no one asks, "Why
waste time in sleeping and eating?" When we are hungry we eat. When
we are sleepy we sleep. But when the question of bodily labor arises,
we ask, "Why waste our time? Why give so much trouble to the body? We are
doing enough work, are we not, with our minds?" My dear sir, you talk of working with the mind,
then, why not eat with the mind and sleep with the mind? Why not be content with mental sleep and
mental food?
7. Thus there are two classes of men in society - those who work day and night and kill themselves, and those who do not lift a little finger. A friend of mine once said to me, "Some are heads and some are trunks." On the one hand, we have headless bodies, and on the other bodiless heads. The trunks merely labor, while the heads merely think. Society has come to consist of Rahus and Ketus, heads and trunks. But if in reality they were separate heads and trunks, it would not matter. For then some mutual arrangement could be made, as in the story of the blind man and the lame man. The lame could lead the blind and the blind could carry the lame.
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