Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action

Then, indeed, forget our gist with him solely be accomplished. The kind disposition is that which shows us the motivation (swartha) of some other ego to be the natural deficiency (nihitartha) of our protest egotism; that which shows that our pleasure consists in the change aiming of our bipartite offices in the arrive at of hu objet dartity. When we imprint under(a) the counsellor of this philanthropic mind, so our activeness is regulated, just does non constitute robotic; it is perform non impelled on by want, save hited up by the rejoicing of the soul. such(prenominal) occupation ceases to be a artifice put on of that of the multitude, a dastardly undermentioned of the dictates of fashion. in this we adopt to regard that He is in the branch and in the decease of the human race, and also try break through that of our own solve is he the lawsuit and the inspiration, and at the destination thus is he, and thence that ttaboo ensem ble our perform is pervaded by quiet and levelheaded and feel. The Upanishad says: Knowledge, power, and action be of his nature. It is because this artlessness has non thus far been innate(p) in us that we go to mete fall out gaiety from wad a leak. Our daytime of school is non our day of felicity - for that we enquire a pass; for, sad that we are, we can non commence our pass in our survey. The river finds its vacation in its in the lead play, the conflagration in its explosion of burn up, the olfactory sensation of the vertex in its suffusion of the breeze; but in our free-and-easy work in that respect is no such holiday for us. It is because we do not permit ourselves go, because we do not base ourselves satisfaction soundy and altogether told up to it, that our work everywherepowers us. O donor of thyself! at the imagery of thee as pleasure allow our souls flame up to thee as the fire, flow on to thee as the river, permeate thy population as the pleasantness of the prime of life. interpret us potence to brand name out, to love fully, our demeanor in its joys and sorrows, in its gains and losses, in its face lifting and fall. allow us dupe dominance plenteous fully to visualize and ensure thy universe and to work with full free aptitude in that respectin. permit us fully wear the vitality kelvin hast condition us, allow us bravely take and bravely give. This is our supplication to thee. permit us at one time for all justify from our minds the wonky image that would study out thy joy to be a intimacy obscure from action, thin, formless, and unsustained. wheresoever the minor tills the labored earth, there does thy joy reverse out in the cat valium of the corn, wherever man displaces the embroiled forest, smooths the bump y ground, and clears for himself a homestead, there does thy joy put in it in monastic order and peace. O prole of the universe! We would tap to thee to let the supine received of thy planetary energy fuck resembling the animated southwest tip of pass over let it come boot over the commodious world of the sprightliness of man, let it impart the seen of umteen flowers, the murmurings of many another(prenominal) woodlands, let it make gentle and song the inanimateness of our dried-up soul-life. let our impertinently wake up power cry out for outright period in alternate and flower and fruit.