| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE TWO ASPECTS OF AKARMA - YOGA AND SANNYASA |
| Who can compare the two? 17. In the Fifth Chapter, the two ways of sannyasa are compared. One is doing nothing while working twenty-four hours in the day the other is doing everything while not working even for a moment. The one is silence in speech, the other is speech through silence. Let us consider these two divine states, and inquire about them, and meditate upon them - there is a rare joy in it. 18. In fact, this whole matter is both rare and exalted. Truly, this idea of sannyasa is most holy, most beautiful. We can never thank enough whoever it was that first sought and discovered an idea of such shining splendor. This idea of sannyasa, one may say, is the highest point reached by man's intellect, his power of thought. Beyond this, no man's thought has stretched, to this day. Attempts at higher flights are still going on, but neither in concept nor in experience has anyone surpassed this. There is a rare joy in the very contemplation of this sannyasa with its two aspects. But when we come to the world of speech and action, the joy fails; we feel that we are falling. On this matter, I have thought and talked with my friends for many years, and I have discovered the inadequacy of language to deal with it. |
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