The Gita according to Gandhi 260

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 5 14. The Lord creates neither agency nor action for the world; neither does he connect action with its fruit. It is nature that is at work. God is no doer. The inexorable law of karma prevails, and in the very fulfillment of the law giving everyone his deserts, making everyone reap what he sows lies God's abounding mercy and justice. In undiluted justice is mercy. Mercy which is inconsistent with justice is not mercy but it’s opposite. But man is not a judge knowing past, present, and future. So for him the law is reversed and mercy or forgiveness is the purest justice. Being himself ever liable to be judged he must accord to others what he would accord to himself, viz. forgiveness. Only by cultivating the spirit of forgiveness can he reach the state of a yogi, whom no actions bind, the man of even-mindedness, the man skilled in action.