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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
Yoga, serenity is called the means." Ch VI-3.
It is impossible to rise or jump to Sattwa all of a sudden from Tamas One should convert Tamas into full Rajas first. Then he can reach Sattwa Sattwa is intense activity Just as the wheel of an engine appears to remain stationary when it moves very swiftly, so also a Sattwic man appears to be calm through his self-restraint or control. A Sattwic man is most active. He can turn out tremendous work within the twinkling of an eye. He has full concentration
Prakriti does all action It is the Gunas that operate. Owing to ignorance the body is mistaken for the Self. Egoism of man asserts at every step, nay, at every second Just as the motion of the clouds is falsely attributed to the sun, so also the movements of the body and the Indriyas are falsely attributed to the Self. The Self is always silent and is the witness of all actions He is Nishkriya or Akarta You will find in the Gita:
"All actions are wrought by the qualities born of nature only. The self, deluded by egoism, thinketh: 'I am the doer.' But he, o mighty-armed, who knoweth the essence of the divisions of the qualities and functions, holding that the qualities move amid the qualities, is not attached " Ch III-27, 28.
"I do not do anything' should think the harmonised one, who knoweth the essence of things. Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping,
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