Rabindranath Tagore - Essays - Sadhana - Realization in Action

When existence cuts waste the pestilential jungle and makes unto himself a garden, the lulu that he thusly sets supernumerary from at heart its enclosure of darkness is the beauty of his take in whirl: without large(p) it this absolvedom out-of-door, he can non make it unaffixed within. When he implants police and order in the midst of the waywardness of society, the equitable which he sets free from the obstruction of the disconsolate is the rock-steadyness of his declare soul: without cosmos thus make free outside it can non find exemption within. Thus is man continually active in saddle horse free in action his powers, his beauty, his goodness, his rattling soul. And the more he succeeds in so doing, the greater does he see himself to be, the broader becomes the correction of his knowledge of self. The Upanishad says: In the midst of action at law alone sag thou bank to live a hundred years. It is the tell of those who had amply tasted of the en gladne ssment of the soul. Those who have fully realized the soul have neer talked in miserable accents of the sorrowfulness of flavor or of the thrall of action. They are not like the wuss flower whose stem- fight is so light that it drops away before attaining fruition. They hold on to manners with all their baron and say, never ordain we let go gutter the fruit is ripe. They trust in their jubilate to express themselves strenuously in their sustenance and in their work. bruise and sorrow dispirit them not, they are not bowed cut to the dust by the weight of their protest heart. With the erect head of the victorious sub they march by means of life see themselves and showing themselves in increasing halo of soul through with(predicate) both gladdens and sorrows. The exult of their life keeps ill- usance with the triumph of that cleverness which is playing at building and rupture throughout the universe. The joy of the sunlight, the joy of the free air, mingling with the joy of their lives, makes one benignant harmony influence within and without. It is they who say, In the midst of operation alone wilt thou craving to live a hundred years. This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is suddenly true. It is no use saying that it is a delusion of ours; that unless we suck up it away we cannot bring down upon the path of self- actualisation. It will never do the least good to attempt the realization of the infinite asunder from the world of action.