Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Fri 15 Jul 2005 01:33 PM PDT
048 lp. the secret of action
Subject: the secret of action
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:33:17 -0700
From: "Lopa Paul" <LPaul@scif.com>
Message - 048/149
As I understand, one of the
important questions, that we discussed in the AUM and it continues
here, is about what we can DO. The pragmatic man wants deï¬nite action
points, like Arjuna , he asks again and again what he should do, and is
not satisï¬ed with Krishna's answers. His idea of action means something
quite different from the Lord's , and therein lies Arjuna's discomfort.
Maybe some of us feel a similar discomfort from hearing Alok, repeat
his 'practical guide' of seeking the inner truth for all solutions of
life. It is not practical enough of us. But if we venture on this road
and see events from that Light, we might laugh at our undertanding of
"being practical" .
All that vision is reserved for the elect. Till then we are students of Knowledge - shaadhi, maam twam prapannam .
This is from chapter 24, The Message of the Gita, from the Essays -
"THE secret of action'', so we might summarise the message of
the Gita, the word of its divine Teacher, ``is one with the secret of
all life and existence. Existence is not merely a machinery of Nature,
a wheel of law in which the soul is entangled for a moment or for ages;
it is a constant manifestation of the Spirit. Life is not for the sake
of life alone, but for God, and the living soul of man is an eternal
portion of the Godhead. Action is for self-ï¬nding, for self-fulï¬lment,
for self-realisation and not only for its own external and apparent
fruits of the moment or the future. There is an inner law and meaning
of all things dependent on the supreme as well as the manifested nature
of the self; the true truth of works lies there and can be represented
only incidentally, imperfectly and disguised by ignorance in the outer
appearances of the mind and its action. The supreme, the faultless
largest law of action is therefore to ï¬nd out the truth of your own
highest and inmost existence and live in it and not to follow any outer
standard and Dharma. All life and action must be till then an
imperfection, a difï¬culty, a struggle and a problem. It is only by
discovering your true self and living according to its true truth, its
real reality that the problem can be ï¬nally solved, the difï¬culty and
struggle overpassed and your doings perfected in the security of the
discovered self and spirit turn into a divinely authentic action. Know
then your self; know your true self to be God and one with the self of
all others; know your soul to be a portion of God. Live in what you
know; live in the self, live in your supreme spiritual nature, be
united with God and Godlike. Offer, ï¬rst, all your actions as a
sacriï¬ce to the Highest and the One in you and to the Highest and the
One in the world; deliver last all you are and do into his hands for
the supreme and universal spirit to do through you his own will and
works in the world. This is the solution that I present to you and in
the end you will ï¬nd that there is no other.
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