Life and Death
28. We are living in the midst of death. What is the value of ‘working for our own schemes’ when they might be reduced.
To naught in the twinkling of an eye, or when we may equally swiftly and unawares be taken away from them? But we may feel strong as a rock, if we could truthfully say ‘we work for God and His schemes’. Then nothing perishes. All perishing is them only what seems. Death and destruction have them, but only then no reality about tem. For death and destruction is then but a change.-YI, 23-9-26, 333.
The Desire for Moksha
29. This led the interviewer on to a fundamental question. From a reading of Gandhiji’s writings the friend had gathered that the root of all of Gandhiji’s activities was the desire for moksha, emancipation. But why was not this aspect emphasized sufficiently?
Gandhiji replied by taking recourse to a simile. He said the desire for moksha was indeed there, but it was not meant for anyone other than the individual himself. The world was interested in the fruits, not root. For the tree itself, however the chief concern should be not the fruit, but the root. It was in the depth of one’s being that the individual had to concentrate. He had to nurse it with the water of his labour and suffering. The root was his chief concern.-H, 28-9-47, 340.
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Regarding himself 25. I have no special revelation of God’s will. My firm belief is that He reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to ‘the still small voice’. We shut our eyes to the Pillar of Fire in front of us. I realize His omnipresence. –YI, 25-5-2I, I62. ‘One step enough for me’ 26. I do not want to foresee the future, I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. –YI, 26-I2-24, 427.
27.The impenetrable darkness that surrounds us is not a curse but a blessing. He has given us power to see only the step in front of us, and it should be enough if Heavenly light reveals that step to us. We can then sing with Newman, ‘One step enough for me’. And we may be sure from our past experience that the next step will always be in view. In other words, the impenetrable darkness is nothing so impenetrable as we imagine. But it seems impenetrable when, in our impatience, we want to look beyond that one step.-H, 20-4-34, 78. |
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