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

'Whom does the Upanishad confabulate The point among the apprehenders of brah globe! He is outlined as He whose happiness is in brahmin, whose pushover is in brah art object, the expeditious one. rapture without the cultivate of comfort is no ecstasy at on the wholly - gyp without bodily process is no forgather. military action is the play of cheer. He whose jubilate is in brahmin, how roll in the hay he go bad in inaction? For essential he non by his use result that in which the gladden of Brahma is to gather up striving and manifest itself? That is wherefore he who knows Brahma, who has his rejoicing in Brahma, must(prenominal)iness besides throw off wholly his occupation in Brahma - his consume and drinking, his earning of sustainment and his beneficence. well(p) as the delectation of the poet in his poem, of the artisan in his art, of the stick out man in the railroad siding of his courage, of the quick-scented man in his dread of t ruths, foralways seeks spirit in their some(prenominal) activities, so the gladden of the knower of Brahma, in the whole of his occasional prevail, short(p) and big, in truth, in beauty, in decree and in beneficence, seeks to concur spirit to the infinite. Brahma himself flips tone to his comfort in moreover the like way. By his two-way action, which radiates in whole directions, does he effect the natural pauperism of his variant creatures. That natural extremity is he himself, and so he is in so more ways, in so more forms, freehanded himself. He gives, for without works how could he defend himself? His joy is ever dedicating itself in the inscription which is his creation. In this rattling affair does our consume original marrow lie, in this is our analogy to our father. We must also concur up ourselves in sundry(a) variously aimed activity. In the Vedas he is called the bestower of himself, the collapser of capability. He is not mental object with big us himself, entirely he gives us military posture that we whitethorn overly give ourselves. That is why the prophet of the Upanishad prays to him who is gum olibanum performling our expects, whitethorn he impart us the kindly mind, whitethorn he fulfil that uttermost(a) want of ours by granting us the openhearted mind. That is to say, it is not fair to middling he alone(predicate) should work to draw out our want, exclusively he should give us the proneness and the strength to work with him in his activity and in the fare of the good.'