Essays on the Gita

Nirvana and Works in the World 245condition? No, again; for the liberated Yogin there is no otherlaw, rule, dharma than simply this, to live in the Divine and lovethe Divine and be one with all beings; his freedom is an absoluteand not a contingent freedom, self-existent and not dependentany longer on any rule of conduct, law of life or limitation of anykind. He has no longer any need of a process of Yoga, becausehe is now perpetually in Yoga. “The Yogin who has taken hisstand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings, however andin all ways he lives and acts, lives and acts in Me.” The loveof the world spiritualised, changed from a sense-experience toa soul-experience, is founded on the love of God and in thatlove there is no peril and no shortcoming. Fear and disgust ofthe world may often be necessary for the recoil from the lowernature, for it is really the fear and disgust of our own ego whichreflects itself in the world. But to see God in the world is to fearnothing, it is to embrace all in the being of God; to see all as theDivine is to hate and loathe nothing, but love God in the worldand the world in God.But at least the things of the lower nature will be shunnedand feared, the things which the Yogin has taken so much troubleto surmount? Not this either; all is embraced in the equality ofthe self-vision. “He, O Arjuna, who sees with equality everythingin the image of the Self, whether it be grief or it be happiness, himI hold to be the supreme Yogin.” And by this it is not meant atall that he himself shall fall from the griefless spiritual bliss andfeel again worldly unhappiness, even in the sorrow of others, butseeing in others the play of the dualities which he himself has leftand surmounted, he shall still see all as himself, his self in all,God in all and, not disturbed or bewildered by the appearancesof these things, moved only by them to help and heal, to occupyhimself with the good of all beings, to lead men to the spiritualbliss, to work for the progress of the world Godwards, he shalllive the divine life, so long as days upon earth are his portion.The God-lover who can do this, can thus embrace all things inGod, can look calmly on the lower nature and the works of theMaya of the three gunas and act in them and upon them withoutperturbation or fall or disturbance from the height and power