| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE TWO ASPECTS OF AKARMA - YOGA AND SANNYASA |
| The sannyasi and the yogi are one - Witness : Suka and Janaka 24. Sannyasa and yoga are both such high concepts that in their absolute form they cannot be embodied in any human being. But though they cannot be contained by the body, they can be comprehended by the mind. We have to stop with describing in words, what the perfect yoga and the perfect sannyasa are like. They will always remain ideal and inaccessible but as examples we should take those who have approached the ideal. Then, as in Geometry, we should take it that these are perfect yogis
and perfect sannyasis. We illustrate sannyasa by Suka and Yajnavalkya.
As karma-yogis, the Gita itself mentions Janaka and Sri Krishna. Lokamanya
Tilak, in Gita-Rahasya, gives a long list, "Janaka, Sri Krishna and others followed this
path; Suka, Yajnavalkya and others followed that path." But thinking a
little, one sees that the distinction vanishes as if written within water. That is, Janaka, the karma-yogi was a disciple of Yajnavalkya, the sannyasi; but Sukadeva, the sannyasi was the disciple of this same Janaka. Suka was the disciple of Janaka, who was the disciple of Yajnavalkya. First the sannyasi, then the karma-yogi, and then again the sannyasi, so the garland is strung. Thus yoga and sannyasa succeed each other in the same line. |
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