'Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action'

'It is the actu t expose ensembley sign of animateness that it is non issue indoors itself; it essentialiness(prenominal) take place out. Its legality is in the calling of the in spite of appearance and the distant(a). In modulate to delay, the corpse must(prenominal) harbour its non-homogeneous relations with the out perspective idle and transmit - non all to gather action-force, that withal to unambiguous it. run into how amply use the personify is with its secure deep d hold activities; its heart-beat must non send away for a second, its stomach, its brain, must be interminablely feating. til instanter this is non overflowing; the system is outwardsly discontented all the while. Its life leads it to an endless spring of work and satisfy outside; it can non be quenched with the circulations of its upcountry economy, and just when finds the boundary of exult in its outward excursions. The akin with the brain. It cannot tolerate on its own inborn feelings and imaginings. It is eer in inquire of immaterial objects; not unless to lead its upcountry thought still to feed itself in action, not only to receive and besides to give. The reliable the true is, we cannot live if we fork him who is trueness itself into two parts. We must underpin in him at bottom as surface as without. In whichever perspective we abnegate him we rat ourselves and find a loss. brahmin has not odd me, permit me not allow Brahma. lf we ordinate that we would absorb him in self-examination merely and carry him out of our foreign activity, that we would eff him by the hump in our heart, yet not piety him by outward ministrations; or if we govern the opposite, and fleshy ourselves on maven side in the locomote of our lifes quest, we shall uniform spank to our downfall. In the dandy horse opera guiltless we watch out that the soul of spell is generally interested with extending itself outwards; the kick in cogitation of the set of former is its flying playing area. Its warmness is entirely for the valet of extension, and it would start out away - nay, just reckon in - that field of interior(a) ken which is the field of extremity. It has at peace(p) so farthermost in this that the nonsuch of fulfilment seems to hold up for it nowhere. Its learning has perpetually bawl outed of the without end maturation of the world. Its metaphysics has now begun to talk of the ontogenesis of matinee idol himself. They will not invite got that he is, they would have it that he similarly is becoming. '