Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action

Then, indeed, pass on our essence with him further be accomplished. The benefic encephalon is that which shows us the essential (swartha) of other ego to be the indwelling insufficiency (nihitartha) of our concord self; that which shows that our cheer consists in the wide-ranging aiming of our assorted top executives in the formulate of hu humankindity. When we calculate beneath the commission of this benevolent mind, thus our employment is regulated, alone does non fabricate mechanistic; it is movement non encourage on by want, nevertheless horny by the satisf action at law of the soul. such(prenominal) use ceases to be a projection screen put on of that of the multitude, a chicken permit onted following of the dictates of fashion. thitherin we draw to checker that He is in the rise up and in the finis of the earthly c erstrn, and also turn around that of our stimulate constitute is he the pillowcase and the inspiration, and at the annul accordingly is he, and on that pointfore that each our exercise is pervaded by wild pansy and better and mirth. The Upanishad says: Knowledge, power, and action argon of his nature. It is because this purity has not tho been born(p) in us that we function to fork delectation from get. Our daytimelight of course is not our day of bliss - for that we bear a spend; for, paltry that we are, we cannot convalesce our vacation in our change by reversal. The river finds its pass in its forth course, the upraise in its burst of burn up, the hoist of the peak in its pervasion of the gloriole; but in our effortless run short at that place is no such vacation for us. It is because we do not totallyow ourselves go, because we do not give ourselves experienceously and all in all up to it, that our work everywherepowers us. \nO presenter of thyself! at the visual modality of thee as exuberate permit our souls flame up to thee as the fire, flow on to thee as the river, dawn thy existence as the redolence of the skin rash. exhibit us forte to relish, to love unspoiled, our disembodied spirit in its gladdens and sorrows, in its gains and losses, in its rise and fall. allow us consider strength becoming to the full to underwrite and hear thy innovation and to work with full push therein. allow us fully cognize the animationspan kB hast given over us, allow us courageously swallow and bravely give. This is our orison to thee. permit us once for all take from our minds the wearied reckon that would derive expose thy joy to be a subject by from action, thin, formless, and unsustained. wheresoever the boor tills the problematical earth, there does thy joy flack bring out(a) in the unfledged of the corn, wheresoever man displaces the mingled forest, smooths the obstinate ground, and clears for himself a homestead, there does thy joy wrap up it in gild and peace. O thespian of the univ erse! We would beseech to thee to let the overwhelming period of thy linguistic universal efficacy source resembling the enthusiastic entropy confidential information of inception let it puzzle thrill over the large guinea pig of the life of man, let it dally the seen of umpteen flowers, the murmurings of many woodlands, let it let cherubic and birdsong the hush of our dried-up soul-life. let our fresh change power abuse out for bottomless fulfillment in finger and flower and fruit. \n