The Gita according to Gandhi 235

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 3 26. The enlightened may not confuse the mind of the unenlightened, who are attached to action; rather must he perform all actions unattached, and thus encourage them to do likewise. 27. All action is entirely done by the gunas of prakriti. Man, deluded by the sense of ‘I', thinks, ‘I am the doer'. 28. But he, O Mahabahu, who understands the truth of the various gunas and their various activities, knows that it is the gunas that operate on the gunas; he does not claim to be the doer. As breathing, winking and similar processes are automatic and man claims no agency for them, he being conscious of the processes only when disease or similar cause arrests them, in a similar manner all his acclivities should be automatic, without his arrogating to himself the agency or responsibility thereof.