Non-Attached Action=Duty
« The doer of non-attached action is the most conscientious of men. Freed from fear and desire, he offers everything he does as a sacrement of devotion to his duty. All work becomes equally and vitally important. It is only toward the results of work - success or failure, praise or blame - that he remains indifferent. »
Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, transl.The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gita, NY: The New American Library,1972
« Every deed confirms the sense of egoism and separateness of the doer, and sets in motion a new series of effects. Therefore, it is argued, one must renounce all action and become a samnyasin. »
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, transl., The Bhagavadgita (London: Allen & Unwin) ,1949.
All things all thoughts
All signs point to the One Will testing itself
What real need is there
unless the Big Bang disperses the One Will
undertakes the shrinking universe
beyond the birth of Time
the Death of Space
and there is need for salvation for resurrection
a freedom or freeing of the conflict
between this and that
matter and anti-matter
the positive and the negative
the yang and the yin
or whatever it is that makes for visible knowable phenomena
not the invisible dark matter
the Unknowable
this life on this earth let loose in this solar system
within this galaxy lost in this bloating universe
the tips of the fingers not knowing
where the tips of the toes twitch or even if they were there
as if the will sought to reassemble them all into a functioning body
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poem by T. Wignesan
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