| Author Quoted | Ashtavakra |
| Title Quoted | Ashtavakra gita / Ashtavakra ; transl. by Hari Prasad Shastri |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/05/16 |
| Imprint | London : Shanti Sadan. 1949, 1961 |
| Quotation | Technology as Karma. What can be done has to be done. The burden of possibility that has to be fulfilled, possibilities which demand so imperatively to be fulfilled that everything else is sacrificed for their fulfillment. Computer Karma in American civilization. Distinguish work as narcotic (that is being an operator and all that goes with it) from healthy and free work. But also consider the wrong need for non-action. The Astavakra Gita says: "Do not let the fruit of action be your motive and do not be attached to nonaction." In other words, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Work to please God alone. Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, "By devotion in work He knows me, knows what in truth I am and who I am. Then having known me in truth, He enters into me." |
| Quotation Source | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 103 |
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