| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| ANOTHER SUPPLEMENT : PROGRAMME FOR THE SEEKER |
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the sculptor gets absorbed in carving, he feels that this beautiful
image was not shaped by his hands. As he goes on chiseling, at the
last moment, somehow, from somewhere, beauty comes of itself and
settles there. Without chitta suddhi, inward purity, how can
the art of God manifest itself? The beauty, the loveliness of the
image, is nothing but the beauty of the sculptor's soul that has
been poured into it.
The image is an image of our mind. All our actions are images of our mind. If our mind is beautiful, its image in the medium of action will also be beautiful. We should judge the purity of outward action by the purity of the mind, and the purity of the mind by the purity of outward action. 14. One word more! And this is, in all these actions mantra too is necessary. Action without mantra is meaningless. While spinning, bear this mantra in your heart : "Through this thread I tie myself to the poor in this land." If we work for hours on end, but without this mantra in our heart, it is all wasted. The mind will not attain purity through this action. Consider spinning. If we apply to the action this mantra, that the Lord hidden in the cotton manifests Himself in the form of the thread, the action will then become truly pure and beautiful. It will become worship, service to the people and to God. In the tiny mouth of the child Krishna, mother Yashoda saw the whole Creation. In this thread too, charged with mantra, you will begin to see the whole universe. |
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