Why should the Lord work? What would be the loss to the generation if He were not to work at all? The masses always imitate their leaders and heroes in their dress, in their behaviour, in their moral values, in their actions, in all the branches of their activities. They fix their measure of perfection always by watching the standard of life of their leaders. If the Lord did not continue to work without relaxation, men also would follow in His wake and sink themselves into inactivity and so into an unproductive existence. In nature everything acts constantly and sincerely. The entire Universe survives and sustains itself by activity.
In these stanzas, as everywhere, all along in the Geeta, the first person singular is used by Lord Krishna, not in the sense of the Blue Boy of Vrindavana, but as the Atman, or the Self-realised Man-of-Perfection. A liberated soul realises himself to be nothing other than the Spirit, upon which alone is the play of matter sustained, as the dream is sustained upon the waker. If this God-principle, though inactive in Itself, does not consistently serve the pluralistic phenomenal world as its permanent substratum, the world as it is now, cannot exist. The ocean never rises, in spite of the billows. Yet, it is a fact that without the ocean the waves cannot rise or dance. Similarly, if the Lord were not to keep on activity serving the world, the cultural life of the generation would stagnate.
“AND WHAT HARM IS THERE IF I DO NOT ACT?”… THE LORD SAYS:
