A man’s devotion to God is to be judged from the extent to which he gives up his stiffness and bends low in humility. Only then will he be, not an impostor, but a truly illumined man, a man of genuine knowledge. we can follow truth only in the measure that we shed our attachment to the ego.If an unenlightened man decides in favour of worldliness, Therefore, he has to keep on repeating to himself that he is the Atman, for it is not a truth experienced by him at all hours of the day. so man must reduce his daily conduct to mechanical regularity and precision, but he must do so intelligently. Man’s merit lies in observing divine guidance at the back of these processes and in an intelligent imitation of it, rather than in emphasizing the mechanical nature thereof and reducing himself to an automaton.
Gandhi's translation and commentary to the Gita carry a potency that is hard for me to dilute considering that I have read the Gita a hundred times, he analyses the verse drawing inferences from his daily life at the Ashram, and expatiating about the kind of emptiness and love that embodies the Satyagraha, his spinning wheel, his fast, his activities, the one Gita.
In the community that is the Satyagraha and how the love in one's heart could weld even this world, it reads differently even though I have the Gita a hundred times, Gandhi's word forge a smelt potent for years to come
