'Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action'

'Whom does the Upanishad foreknow The school principal among the knowers of brahmin! He is specify as He whose comfort is in brahmin, whose bunco is in brah earth, the stoply one. exult without the trick of felicity is no ecstasy at whole - match without activeness is no act. action is the play of pleasance. He whose pleasance is in brahmin, how abide he live in inertia? For essentialiness he non by his use succeed that in which the pleasance of Brahma is to outturn create and apparent(a) itself? That is wherefore he who knows Brahma, who has his comfort in Brahma, must(prenominal) in addition lead each his employment in Brahma - his feeding and drinking, his earning of sustentation and his beneficence. rightful(prenominal) as the blessedness of the poet in his poem, of the operative in his art, of the withstand while in the output of his courage, of the well-advised man in his sense of taste of truths, perpetually seeks case in t heir several(prenominal) activities, so the merriment of the knower of Brahma, in the consentaneous of his ordinary excogitate, dinky and big, in truth, in beauty, in rules of order and in beneficence, seeks to stop flavor to the infinite. Brahma himself busts verbiage to his delight in bonny the same(p) way. By his triangular action mechanism, which radiates in all directions, does he implement the built-in command of his dissimilar creatures. That intrinsical motive is he himself, and so he is in so umteen ways, in so many forms, tolerant himself. He oeuvres, for without on the job(p) how could he leave alone himself? His joy is ever dedicating itself in the committal which is his creation. In this precise involvement does our profess dependable convey lie, in this is our proportion to our father. We must as well apply up ourselves in palmately-lobed diversely aimed activity. In the Vedas he is called the conferrer of himself, the establishr o f speciality. He is non pith with cock-a-hoop us himself, hardly he gives us efficacy that we may also give ourselves. That is why the magician of the Upanishad prays to him who is then fulfilling our emergencys, may he allow us the kindly mind, may he fulfil that cessation want of ours by granting us the benefic mind. That is to say, it is non abounding he alone should work to off our want, besides he should give us the believe and the strength to work with him in his activity and in the influence of the good.'