If you follow me you know that for a couple of years I have been studying the Bhagavad Gita, a popular (for 1,000s of years) poem that has provided spiritual inspiration to many.
Recently, I began to read the version translated my Gandhi, which included some of his commentary. In parallel I am reading the book by Eknath Easwaran, Gandhi the Man: How one man changed himself to change the world.
Easwaran tells a story in which two of Gandhi‘s followers are discussing his ability to speak extemporaneously for hours on end.
One of the followers marvels at Gandhi’s ability to talk for so long without notes. The other says something like, “What Gandhi thinks, does and says are all the same. So he does not need notes. However, you and I think one thing: do something else and say something else! Therefore, we need notes!”
I chuckled at the humorous self-deprecation in the midst of truth. I laugh because it’s true about me! Perhaps one day I will be fully aligned with what I think, do, and say. What about you?
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
– Gandhi
