| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE TWO ASPECTS OF AKARMA - YOGA AND SANNYASA |
| 9. Once a good man wrote to me,
"We have to do japa (recitation) of Ramanama a certain number of times.
Please do join us in this, and let me know how many you can do in a day." The poor man was acting
to the best of his knowledge : I am not saying this with the idea of
criticizing him. But Ramanama is not the sort of thing to be measured
or counted. The mother tends the child. Does she ever want to publish reports on it?
If she cared for publicity, we could say, "Thank you," and discharge our debt to her. But she protests, "What have I done? I have done nothing. Is this a burden to me?" When, with the help of vikarma, a man applies his mind, and acts with full heart, it ceases to be karma and becomes akarma. In such action, there is no question of strain or fatigue. 10. It is impossible to describe this state. We can only form a hazy picture of it in our minds. When the sun rises, does the idea enter its mind to say, "I shall banish the darkness, I shall urge the birds to fly, and set men working?" The sun just stands still, where it rises. But the very fact of its being makes all the world go round. But the sun is not aware of this. If you said to the sun, "O Sun-God, the help you give is infinite; how much darkness you have dispelled!" It would make no sense to him. He would say, "Bring a little darkness and show it to me. |
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