| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE TWO ASPECTS OF AKARMA - YOGA AND SANNYASA |
| 19. It is a noble, delightful, poetical
concept of doing every thing by doing nothing, and doing nothing in doing
everything. Where else but here could we find poetry? The famous masterpieces of poetry are
insipid beside this. No poem can compare with this idea in producing
sheer joy, enthusiasm, energy and a sense of the divine. Therefore, the Fifth Chapter has been
established at a very high level. Till the Fourth Chapter; karma and
vikarma were described; now we are taken on a higher flight. Here the two aspects of the state of
akarma are compared before our eyes.
Here words stumble. Is the karma-yogi better, or the karma-sannyasi? Who really does more work? It is impossible to answer these questions. Doing nothing though doing all the things, to do all things by doing nothing - both alike are yoga; but for the sake of comparison, one is called yoga, the other sannyasa. 22. Just as Geometry wants us to postulate some things, bhakti wants us to postulate the presence of God in the saligram. If he says, "God won't crack, but your saligram will; I shall give it a blow," he is not being clever. If you can "postulate" in Geometry, why not in bhakti? Imagine a point, we say, and draw on the board a whole circle. But if you start defining a point, it might turn out to be something like defining Brahma - The Absolute. |
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