| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE TWO ASPECTS OF AKARMA - YOGA AND SANNYASA |
| In the ultimate state, renunciation of
karma and karma-yoga are of equal value, because, in both, there is equal jnana (knowledge) and its
value is ananta, infinite. No matter what you add to infinity, the value
remains infinite. When karma-tyaga and karma-yoga are added to perfect jnana which is infinity, they
become equivalent. But once you remove jnana from both sides of the equation, karma-yoga is more
valuable than karma-tyaga to the sadhaka, the seeker. It is only when
we add firm, pure jnana to both, that they become equal.
When the goal has been reached, jnana + karma = jnana + akarma. For the sadhaka it is difficult even to understand action through inaction. He can understand inaction through action. Karma-yoga is found both in the path and in goal, but sannyasa only in the goal, and not in the path. In the terminology of the shastras, karma-yoga is both the way and the goal, the sadhan and the nishtha, but sannyasa is only nishtha. And "nishtha" means the ultimate state. |
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