Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government c2.s1.157.4

c2.s1.157.4

the end of this art is not the King’s pleasure, but his “children’s” and his own good. As in any other vocation (*svadharma*) the King is to be governed by his art, not “expressing himself,” the instrument, but voicing what has been dictated by the Intellect, νοῦς (*manasā vā agre kīrtayati*, ŚA. VII. 2, cf. John VIII. 28 and Dante, *Purgatorio*, XXIV. 52-54), and making the good of the work to be done his only concern (*karmaṇy evādhikāras te*, BG. II. 47). In the last analysis, God is the skilled player and we the harp of which the “strings” or “senses” must be “regulated.”