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Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4 Verse 18

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.

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From ~~~Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 96.

M.:

The ultimate Truth is so simple.

It is nothing more than being in the pristine state.

This is all that need be said.

Still, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth

there should come into being

so many religions, creeds, methods

and disputes among them and so on!

Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

Q.:

But people will not be content with simplicity;

they want complexity.

M.:

Quite so.

Because they want something elaborate

and attractive and puzzling,

so many religions have come into existence

and each of them is so complex

and each creed in each religion

has its own adherents and antagonists.

For example,

an ordinary Christian will not be satisfied

unless he is told that God is somewhere

in the far-off Heavens not to be reached

by us unaided.

Christ alone knew Him

and Christ alone can guide us.

Worship Christ and be saved.

If told the simple truth

- “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you” -

he is not satisfied and will read complex

and far-fetched meanings in such statements.

Mature minds alone

can grasp the simple Truth

in all its nakedness.

~~~~~~~