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other is "Nivritti," which means revolving away! The "revolving towards" is what we call the world, the "I and mine"; it includes all those things which are always enriching that "me" by wealth and money and power, and name, and fame, and which are of a grasping nature, always tending to accumulate everything in one centre, that centre being "myself." That is the "pravritti," the natural tendency of every human being; taking everything from every where and heaping it around one centre, that centre being man's own sweet self. When this tendency begins to break, when it is "nivritti" or "going away from," then begin morality and religion. Both "pravritti," and "nivritti" are of the nature of work, the former is evil work, and the latter is good work. This "nivritti" is the fundamental basis of all morality and all religion, and the very perfection, of it is entire self-abnegation, readiness to sacrifice mind and body and everything for another being.. When a man has reached that state he has attained to the perfection of Karma-Yoga. This is the.
