And his words have been preserved as they came from his mouth and pen. Then let the Mahatma speak. What he said has an intimate relevance to many of our problems today. It's not about serenity in the midst of action. It's about not having any action at all.
Full consciousness is self-reflective.
But to be aware of being aware we must have that original awareness so that we may be aware of it. That is, bodily awareness must precede mental reflection on the bodily awareness. Blaming the victim is a way of reassuring ourselves that the world is not as bad a place as it may seem, and that there are good reasons for people's suffering. It helps fortunate people bleieve that their good fortune is deserved, rather than being a matter of luck. The problem is always to see both sides of the daimonic, to see phenomena of the inner experience of the individual without psychologizing away our relation to nature, to fate, and to the ground of our being.