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Essays on the Gita -Sri Aurobindo
First Series : Chapter 18
The Divine Worker
A universal Soul, a transcendent Godhead is the master of her labour. The reposing of works in the Impersonal is a means of getting rid of the personal egoism of the doer, but the end is to give up all our actions to that great Lord of all, sarva-loka-mahes vara. “With a consciousness identified with the Self, renouncing all thy actions into Me, mayi sarvani karmani sannyasya dhya tmacetasa , freed from personal hopes and de- sires, from the thought of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, delivered from the fever of the soul, fight,” work, do my will in the world. The Divine motives, inspires, determines the entire action; the human soul impersonal in the Brahman is the pure and silent channel of his power; that power in the Nature executes the divine movement. Such only are the works of the liberated soul, muktasya karma, for in nothing does he act from a personal inception; such are the actions of the accomplished Karmayogin. They rise from a free spirit and disappear without modifying it, like waves that rise and disappear on the surface of conscious, immutable depths. Gata-san gasya muktasya jnana vasthitacetasah. , yajnaya caratah. karmasama gram praviliyate .
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