comment that suggests itself is in the Homeric phrase,Sri Aurobindo
Karmayogin
Political Writings and Speeches — 1909-1910
Karmayogin: A Weekly Review
Saturday 26th February 1910 — No.34
Passing Thoughts
Conversely, at such times great preparations, at least in the initial stages of the change, lead to nothing or very little.
Pompous associations, largely attended conferences, earnest and careful deliberations all end in smoke; they vanish, leaving no trace behind.
This is largely because these great preparations either take their stand on the chimaera that the past can be restored, or they anchor themselves on the permanency of present conditions.
But in these periods things move so rapidly that yesterday's conditions entirely disappear today and today's have no surety of being in existence tomorrow.
Under such circumstances the rule of the Gita becomes almost a necessity, to do one's duty according to one's lights and leave the results to God.
For, when we attempt to gaze into the immediate future, the one comment that suggests itself is in the Homeric phrase,
“These things lie on the knees of the Gods.”
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