EACH DEVOTED TO HIS DUTY, MAN ATTAINS PERFECTION — By being loyal to our own level of feelings and ideas, to our own development of consciousness, we can evolve into higher states of self-unfoldment.
The truth of this classification of mankind may not be very obvious, if we observe it only superficially. But the biographies of all great men of action declare repeatedly the precision with which this law-of-life works itself out in human affairs. A tiny Corsican boy who was asked to tend sheep refused to do so and reached Paris to become one of the greatest generals the world had ever seen — Napoleon. A Goldsmith or a Keats would rather compose his metres in a garret than take up a commercial job, courting prosperity and a life of comfort. Each one is ordered by his own Swabhaava, and each can discover his fulfilment only in that self-ordered field of activity.
By thus working in the field ordered by one’s own vasanas, if one can live surrendering one’s ego and ego-centric desires to enjoy the fruits, one can achieve a sense of fulfilment; and a great peace will arise out of the exhaustion of one’s vasanas. The renunciation of the ego and its desires can never be accomplished unless there is a spirit of dedication and a total surrender to the Infinite. When unbroken awareness of the Lord becomes a constant habit of the mind, dedication becomes effective, and man’s evolution starts.
Such an intelligent classification of human beings on the basis of their physical behaviour, psychological structure and intellectual aptitude is applicable not in India only. This four-fold classification is universal, both in its application in life and its implication in the cultural development of man.
HOW CAN ONE, DEVOTED TO ONES OWN DUTY, ATTAIN PERFECTION? “THAT DO THOU HEAR,” SAYS LORD KRISHNA:
