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The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

VIII. CONCLUSION Some of these may not seem to work in our sense of the term, but their seeming inactivity will be the highest form of activity, as indeed their activity will be the purest form of repose. Their heart will throb with the heart of humanity, and their life will be lived in consonance with the great law. That does preserve the stars from wrong And the most ancient heavens through whom are fresh and strong. Shall we presume to legislate for them? Even the Gita does not. That is the ideal that we have to achieve and the Gita says in one word, 'if you would be one with God acquit yourselves like men.' Only by working out our destinies as men can we work up to Godhood and there is no other way. There is work that binds and work that frees. The moving finger writes and moves on inexorably, but it can cancer all it has written, if only one will surrender the finger to Him.