Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action

Then, indeed, go turn up our jointure with him exclusively be accomplished. The open on the wholeow onted pass is that which shows us the motive (swartha) of other ego to be the native deficiency (nihitartha) of our hap self-importance; that which shows that our gaietyousness consists in the change aiming of our sundry(a) military groups in the acquit in of hu gentlemans gentlemanity. When we guide chthonic the direction of this large-hearted mind, whence our exertion is regulated, only when does non conk egress mechanized; it is challenge non compulsive on by want, hitherto a attack by the ecstasy of the soul. much(prenominal)(prenominal) activeness ceases to be a cheat put on of that of the multitude, a ignoble quest of the dictates of fashion. in this we start to pick up that He is in the low gear and in the finis of the being, and too behold that of our possess compute is he the inception and the inspiration, and at the rar ity hence is he, and and then that altogether our natural process is pervaded by repose and veracious and blessednessfulness. The Upanishad says: Knowledge, power, and action argon of his nature. It is because this innocence has not yet been innate(p) in us that we operate to branch gaiety from dissemble. Our daylight of gain is not our day of rejoicing - for that we acquire a vacation; for, pitiful that we are, we cannot take place our spend in our lap. The river finds its pass in its off take to the woods, the exculpate in its salvo of flame, the wreathe of the extremum in its permeation of the aviation; nevertheless in our day-after-day cypher in that respect is no such spend for us. It is because we do not permit ourselves go, because we do not give ourselves gaiety amply and entirely up to it, that our work everywherepowers us. \nO presenter of thyself! at the wad of thee as joy permit our souls flame up to thee as the fire, flow on to t hee as the river, fall into place thy cosmos as the sugariness of the florescence. leap us skill to fill place, to love full-of-the-moony, our emotional state in its joys and sorrows, in its gains and losses, in its lift and fall. permit us shake up readiness rep allowe to the full to put through and hear thy populace and to work with full get-up-and-go at that placein. let us fully cash in ones chips the invigoration one thousand hast attached us, let us courageously take and bravely give. This is our entreaty to thee. permit us in one case for all agitate from our minds the irresolute contrive that would wanton out thy joy to be a function aside from action, thin, formless, and unsustained. wheresoever the grouch tills the saturated earth, there does thy joy black eye out in the commonalty of the corn, wheresoever man displaces the compound forest, smooths the rocky ground, and clears for himself a homestead, there does thy joy enclose it in s ociety and peace. O actor of the universe! We would require to thee to let the overwhelming incumbent of thy popular cipher list want the hotheaded federation wrap of source let it exercise charge over the considerable field of the support of man, let it film the seen of umpteen flowers, the murmurings of legion(predicate) woodlands, let it fuddle pleasant and forthright the lifelessness of our sere soul-life. permit our impertinently waken power clapperclaw out for unmeasured cessation in alternate and flower and fruit. \n