| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| VIKARMA - THE KEY TO KARMA-YOGA |
| 9. Now, what do we mean by saying
that, by pouring vikarma into karma, it becomes akarma? We mean that,
while acting, we seem not to act, we do not feel the burden of action.
Though we act, we are not the doer. The Gita says, that though you have
slain, you are not the slayer. The mother beats her child: if you try
doing the same, the child will not stand it.
But when the mother beats her child, he still goes back to her and hides his face in her lap - for there is chitta-suddhi, purity of heart, behind the mother's outwardly harsh action. Her punishment of the child was disinterested. It had no selfish motive. By vikarma, by inner purity, karma ceases to be karma. That look of Rama's, because of inward vikarma, had become a mighty ocean of healing love; but the action cost Rama no effort. |
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