If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual
enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in
the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to
simplicity, there is no escape from our descent to a state lower than
brutality.
This is the unmistakable teaching of the Gita. He who gives
up action falls. He who gives up only the reward rises. But renunciation of
fruit in no way means indifference to the result. In regard to every action one
must know the result that is expected to follow the means thereto, and the
capacity for it. He, who, being thus equipped, is without desire for the
result, and is yet wholly engrossed in the due fulfillment of the task before
him, is said to have renounced the fruits of his action.
Purity of life is the highest and truest art
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