Essays on the Gita, First Series (Arya Publishing House, 1922)
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THE GIST OF THE KARMAYOGA making i t fi rst of all the observer of the workings of Nature and leaving tlmse^works to jthe Power that Is really behind them, the something in Nature which is greater than ourselves, not our personality, but the Master of the universe. But jthe mind will t^t permit all this ; its nature is to run out after the senses and carry the reason and will with it. Then we must learn to still the mind. We must attain that absolute peace and stillness in which we become aware of the calm, motionless, blissful Self within us which is eternally untroubled and unaffected by the touches of things, is sufficient to itself and finds there alone its eternal satisfaction.
This Self is our self-existejit beii^. It is ipt limited hy 'our^efsd^^ existence. It is the same in air exi stences, p^vasive, equal to all things, slip pbrtin g^the whole universal action with its infinity,^ but unlimited by all that is finite, unmodified by the changings of Nature and personality. When this Self is revealed within us^ when we feel its peace and stillness, we can grow into that ; we can transfer the poise of our soul from its lower immeigence in Na tu re an d draw it back into the Sejf. We can do this by the force of the things we have irttaig"d, cal^,””'equality, passionless impersonality^ For as we gro^rnr these thihgs,"^arry tjhem to their fullness, subject all our nature to them, we are growing into this calm, equal, passionless, impersonal, all- pervading Self. Our senses fall into that stillness and receive the touches of the world on us with a supreme tranquillity ; our mind falls into stillness and becomes the calm, uni versal witnes s ; our e go dissolves itself into this impersonal existence. All fMi^s we seeln this 'self which we have become in Qurseif ; and we see this self \n .adlj we become one being with all beings in the spiritual basis of their existence. By doing works in this selfl ess tran quillity and impersonality, our works cease to be ours, cease_ tQ bind or trouble with their reactions. Nature and her gunas weave the web of her works, but without affecting our griefless self-existent tranquillity. All is given up into that one equal and universal Brahman.
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