The Background of the Bhagavadgita-2

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27/08/2018
The Background of the Bhagavadgita-2

On the one hand, therefore, you are intensely active; on the other hand, your activity is guided by a principle. The guiding principle is the dharma, the righteousness mentioned here, and the activity is that in which you are engaged. That which subjects you under a compulsion of activity to do something or other every day is the Kurukshetra aspect of this world – the karma field, as it is called. But all the multitudinousness of your activity is finally determined by a principle, and everyone who is busy in this world knows that it is this principle that guides them.

You are busy and active because there is something that you wish to achieve through that activity. The achievement is a future occurrence. A thing that has not taken place, and is yet to be, is the futurity of the expectation through the activity that is a present involvement. That a future, which is only an expectation that is hoped for, is connected with the present, which is the actual activity, would indicate that there is a law that connects the present with the future. Though every bit of time process is disconnected, as it were – the past has gone, the future has not yet come, and the present is like a hair’s breadth of indescribable duration – notwithstanding this fact, there is a connection between the past, the present and the future. The memory of the past, the involvement in the present, and the expectation of the future are a total occurrence in the psyche of the individual. If you cannot expect anything which is not yet to be – if the future has no connection with the present, and something which you are expecting many years ahead is not related to the present activity – that expectation would be a futile exercise. “I shall reap a harvest of satisfaction twenty years afterwards.” With that hope, you plant a little tendril or sow a seed in the garden. The connection of the present activity with the future expectation is a part of the law. And there is actually a single law operating in the whole world. Its manifestations are several, but its root is single.

To be continued ..



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