| What is wonderful about this is that, though he had to work intensely for seven whole days, he felt no strain.
Though he was constantly working it was as if he did not work at all. He had not even a feeling of effort. The truth
is that sannyasa and karma-yoga are not two different things.
26. Hence, the Lord says,
"ekam saankhyam cha yogam cha yah pasyati sa pasyati." "He truly sees, who sees sankhya and yoga as
one." He who realizes that sankhya and yoga are one, can be said to
have understood the real secret. The one acts while being inactive, and the other, though he acts, does
not feel the effort. A real sannyasi one who is in constant samadhi, and free from all distorting passion - if we keep one such with us for ten days, what light,
what energy, he radiates! What could not be achieved by repeated efforts
through the years, comes easy because we look at him because he is with us.
When the mind is purified by a look at a photograph,
when the
heart is filled with devotion, love and holiness by looking at the picture of a dead person, what inspiration can
we not derive from seeing a live sannyasi?
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