| 16. What is action
? What is inactionAs to this, even the wise are deluded I shall teach thee
such action by knowing which thou shalt be liberated from evil.Even the
wise are deluded as to what is action and what is inaction. Wherefore I
will explain to you the nature of action and of inaction, knowing which
thou shalt be released from the evil of samsara.Neither shouldst thou think
thus ; It is familiar to all that action means movement of the body, and
inaction means absence of it, to sit quiet. What is there to be learnt about
them ?Wherefore ? The answer follows:For, thou hast to know something even
of action, something to know of unlawful action, and something to know of
inaction ; hard to understand is the nature of action.For there is much
to be learnt about the action which is enjoined by the scripture, about
the action which is unlawful, and about inaction. ln fact, it is hard to
understand the true nature of action (enjoined), of inaction, and of unlawful
action.What, then, is the true nature of action and inaction about which
much has to be learnt, and which you have promised to teach ?Listen: |
