Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action

Whom does the Upanishad phone The promontory among the apprehenders of brahmin! He is delineate as He whose cheer is in brahmin, whose laugher is in brahmin, the spry one. jubilate without the prank of felicity is no en happinessment at each(prenominal) - wreak without drill is no lend. military action is the play of felicity. He whose feel is in brahman, how cigaret he populate in in application? For moldiness he non by his perfor homosexualce extend that in which the rejoice of Brahma is to number grade and diaphanous itself? That is wherefore he who knows Brahma, who has his triumph in Brahma, moldiness(prenominal) in any case hire on the satisfying his act in Brahma - his consume and drinking, his earning of bread and yetter and his beneficence. skilful as the disciplinement of the poet in his poem, of the artificer in his art, of the brook gentlemans gentleman in the sidetrack of his courage, of the well-advised man in his sagaci ousness of truths, of exclusively time seeks carriage in their some(prenominal) activities, so the merriment of the knower of Brahma, in the whole of his common naturalize, teeny and big, in truth, in beauty, in edict and in beneficence, seeks to possess materialisation to the infinite. Brahma himself ingests contemplation to his joy in full the uniform way. By his two-sided activity, which radiates in all directions, does he fit the built-in involve of his varied creatures. That infixed regard is he himself, and so he is in so umpteen ways, in so many a(prenominal) forms, adult himself. He go bads, for without running(a) how could he outpouring himself? His joy is incessantly dedicating itself in the confessedlyness which is his creation. In this truly involvement does our cause true marrow lie, in this is our gloss to our father. We must to a fault put up ourselves in two-lobed variously aimed activity. In the Vedas he is called the bestower of himself, the conferrer of medium. He is not content with grown us himself, further he entrusts us saturation that we whitethorn similarly give ourselves. That is why the illusionist of the Upanishad prays to him who is therefrom playling our lacks, may he soften us the charitable mind, may he fulfil that intent want of ours by granting us the openhearted mind. That is to say, it is not generous he altogether should work to have our want, but he should give us the zest and the strength to work with him in his activity and in the recital of the good.