Even when the Creator, the Total-mind, puts up the show of the Universe of the Five Elements and brings forth the living organisms along with man, on this stage of life to work, to strive and to achieve, he creates also Yajna, “the spirit of self-dedicated activities.” The Yajna-spirit is seen everywhere: the Sun shines, the Moon appears, the Sea throbs, the Earth bears — all in a spirit of sacrifice and self-dedicated motherly love with never even a trace of attachment or any kind of self-arrogating motives.
The whole world of cosmic powers, and nature’s phenomena function instinctively in the service of all. Even before life could appear on the face of the earth, the elemental forces had prepared the field with their constant activities performed in the sacred spirit-of-dedication. Even when life developed and multiplied, at all levels, we can easily recognise different degrees of Yajna-activities, which keep up the harmonious growth of existence.
The above idea, when poetically put, becomes this pregnant stanza in the Geeta. The Creator created the world along with the “spirit-of-service” and the “capacity-for-sacrifice.” As it were, the Creator declared, “by this spirit of self-sacrifice shall you multiply; this shall be the milch-cow of your desires.” Kamadhenu is a mythological cow, supposed to have belonged to Sage Vasishta, from which all our desires could be milked out. The term, therefore, means only that no achievement is impossible for man, if he knows how to act in the discipline of co-operation, and if he is ready to bring forth into his activities the required amount of non-attachment and spirit of sacrifice.
HOW CAN THIS BE ACHIEVED BY SACRIFICE?
