Karmayogi

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f the truth of Adwaita to justify the deifying of his own reason, he is encouraging practical atheisin while taking the divine name in vain. God manifests Himself in everything. He manifests himself in our reason, therefore let us forget God and rely on our own human calculations. That is the train of argu
What is the use of relying on God let us look to our own safety. What is the use of being brave in the hour of peril? If our leader goes, the movement stops. Mam unumara yulhya cha, is the. motto of the Karmayogin. God manifests himself in the individual partially, but He stands behind the progress of the world wholly. We are bound to use our own intellects, we cannot help it if we would, but we must remember that it is a limited intellect and be prepared for the failure of our schemes and plans, for calamity, for defeat, without making these things an exense for abandoning His work, laying our principles on the shelf or sending out a ery to discourge steadfastness and self-sacrifice. Our plans may fail, God's purpose ca.not. That is why we laid so much stress on the fact. that this has been a movement whichas the man in the street would say, has led itself, in which individuals have been instruments and not the real shapers and leaders. We have faith and we believe in the great rule of life in the Gita, "Remember me and fight. We believe in the mighty word of assurance to the bhakta, Macchittah warranryani matprasulat tarishyasi, "If thou reposest thy heart and mind in Me by My grace thou shalt pass safe through all difficulties and dangers. We believe that the Yoga of the Gita will play a large part in the uplifting of the nation, and this Attitude is the first condition of the Yoga of the Gita. When any -body trios to discourage people in this attitude, we are hound to enter the lists against him. We recognise that to argue with those who have only opinions but no realistion is a hopeless task, since it is only by entering into commanion with Infinite and seeing the Divine Force in all that one can be intellectually sure of its conscious action. But at least we can try to remove the philosophical delusions and confusions which mislead men from the right path and veil European materialism under generalities drawn from Vedanta,
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THE GREATNESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL,
In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the gpirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India Kala, who expresses himself. The very names are deeply siginificant. Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity manifesting herself in the perpetual surge of men, institutions and movements, Mahakala the Spirit within whose energy goes abroad in her and moulds the progress of the world and the destiny of the nations. His is the impetus which fulfils itself in Time, and once there
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movement, impetus from the Spirit within, Time and the Mother take charge of it, prepare, ripen and fulfil. When the Zeitgeist, God in Time, moves in a settled direction, then the whole forces of the world. are called in to swell the established current towards the purpose decreed. That which consciously helps, swells it, but that which hinders swells it still more, and liko a wave on the windswept Ocean, now rising now falling, now high on the erest of victory and increase,now down in the troughs of discouragement and defont the impulse from the hidden Source sweeps onward to its, preorlained fulfilment. Man may help or man may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists.
The gront and memorable vision of Kurukshetra when Sri Krishna manifesting his world-form declared himself as destroying Time, is significant of this deep perception of humanity. When Arjun wished to cast aside his bow and quiver, when he said, "This is a sin we do and a great destruction of men and brothers, I will forbear," Sri Krishna after convincing his intellect of error, proceeded by that marvellous vision described in the eleventh canto of the Gita to stamp the truth of things upon his imagination. Thus run the nighty stanzas: Gersfer are equ लोकान् समाहर्तृ मित्र प्रवृत्तः । wasfa ir faunfær asafe: xaritag TT: amragius air t fireer भवनभुव, राज्य स wada forwar: quia निमित्तमानं भवं संवासाचिन् ॥
"I am time who waste and destroy the people; Lo, I have arisen in my might, I am here to swallow up the nations. Even without thee all they shall not be, the men of war who stand arrayed in the opposing squadrons. Therefore do thou arise and get thee great glory, conquer thy foes and enjoy a great and wealthy empire. For these, they were slain even before and it is I who have slain them; be the occasion only, O Savyasachin."
It is not as the slow process of Time that Sri Krishna manifests himself; it is as the Zeitgeist consummating in a moment the work carefully prepared for decades that He appears to Arjuna. All have been moving inevitably towards the catastrophe of Kurukshetra, Men did not know it: those who would have done everything possible to avert the calamity, helped its coming by their action or inaction; those who had glimpse of it strove in vain to sto the wheels of Fate; Sri Krishna himself as the nishkama karmayogin who does his duty without regard to results, went on that hopeless embassy to Hastinapura; but the Zeitgeist overbore all. It was only afterwards that men saw how like rivers speeding towards the sea, like moths winging towards the lighted flame all that splendid powerful and arrogant Indian world with its clans of Kings and its weapons and its chariots and its gigantic armies were rushing towards the open mouths of the destroyer to bu lost in His mighty jaws, to be inangled between His gnashing teeth. In the lila of the Eternal there are movements that are terrible as well as movements that are sweet and beauti ful. The dance of Brindaban is not complete without the death-dance of Kurukshetra; for each is a part of that great harmonic movement of the world which progresses from discord to accord, from batred and strife to love and brotherhood, from evil to the fulfilment of the evolution by the transformation of suffering and sin into beauty, bliss and good, shivam,shantam,uddham anandam.
Who could resis; the purpose of the Zeitgeist? There were strong men in India then by the hundred, great philosophers and Yogins, subtle statesmen, leaders of men, kings of thought and action, the efflorescence of a mighty intellectual civilisation at its height. A little turning to the right instead of to the left on the part.