Essays on the Gita, First Series (Arya Publishing House, 1922)

Resignation l^ the Basis of a kind of religious equality, sub miss ^ion to the divine will, a patient bearing of the cr^s, a submissive Tofbearance. In the (J^ita this element takes the more ample form of aiTTntifEIiim ender of the whole bei ng to G od. It is not merMy a passive subim^ion, Imt a n aefi^ self-giving ; not only a seeing and an accepting of the dfvine Will in all things, but a giving up of one’s own will to be the instrum ent of the Master of works, and this not witHThe lessS idea of being a^sen^t of God, but, eventually at least, of such a complete renunciation both of the consciousness 2and the works to him that our being becomes one with his being and the impersonalised nature only an instrument and nothing else. All result good or bad, pleasing or uripleasing, foAunate or lin- fornmate, Is' accepted as belongirig to the Master of our actions, 'so" that finally not only are grief and sliffcring borne, but they are banished: a perfect equality of the emotional mind is established. Ttere islho assumpfibn of q^ers^OTTal will In the instrument ; it is seen that all is already worked out in the omniscient prescience and omnipotent effective power of the universal Divine and that the egoism of men cannot alter the workings of that Will. Therefore, the final attitude is that enjoined on Arjuna in a later chapter, “All has been already done by Me in my divine w ill ai^ foresighT ; become only the occasion, O Axjuna,'^ nimitta- m^Fdin hhava savyasdchin^^This attitude inusTtead finally td''an “^absolute union of the personal with the Divine Will and, with the growth of knowledge, bring about a faultless response of the instrument to the divine Power and Knowledge. A perfect, an absolute equality of self-surre nder , the mentality a ^as^sive channel of the divine Light an d Powe r, the active being a mightily effective instrument for its work in the world, will the poise of this supreme union of the Transcendent, the universal alldTherndividual.