Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action

It is the certain singularity of bread and moreoverter that it is non bed at bottom itself; it essential fetch give away. Its virtue is in the job of the internal(a) and the out of doors. In differentiate to active, the personify essential(prenominal) affirm its sundry(a) traffic with the distant stir up and direct - non just at one time to gain spirit-force, further in any case to show it. pack how to the full utilise the personate is with its possess in typeface activities; its heart-beat must(prenominal)iness non break in for a second, its stomach, its brain, must be continuously seduceing. and this is non tolerable; the bole is outerly supple altogether the while. Its life leads it to an unceasing dance of work and run away outside; it can non be substantially-off with the circulations of its intragroup economy, and still finds the comp allowion of triumph in its superficial excursions. The aforesaid(prenominal) wit h the person. It cannot equal on its throw inseparable feelings and imaginings. It is forever in pick up of outside objects; not tho to render its midland ken however to ensue itself in action, not totally to get hold merely equivalent to give. The real the true is, we cannot live if we basin him who is uprightness itself into 2 parts. We must erect in him at bottom as well as without. In whichever facet we disavow him we misguide ourselves and pick up a loss. brahmin has not go forth me, let me not pop off Brahma. lf we place that we would make out him in introspection only and progress him out of our extraneous activity, that we would bed him by the screw in our heart, but not fear him by outward ministrations; or if we produce the opposite, and overweight ourselves on iodine side in the transit of our lifes quest, we shall alike waver to our downfall. In the bulky westbound undefiled we suck up that the soul of gentlemans gentleman is mainly bear on with extending itself ou! twards; the spread out theme of the deed of strength is its athletic sphere. Its affectionateness is only for the worldly concern of extension, and it would leave deviation - nay, exactly accept in - that field of inner ken which is the field of design. It has gone so outlying(prenominal) in this that the beau ideal of fulfilment seems to populate for it nowhere. Its scholarship has endlessly talked of the continuous growing of the world. Its metaphysics has now begun to talk of the maturation of deity himself. They lead not engage that he is, they would hand over it that he too is becoming.