| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
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his words of command to the regiment would be peremptory. It is as
if he considers the regiment as a lifeless log to be kicked about
hither and thither on the field. We see, here too, how the
individual is alive, but the collective is lifeless. Here you are,
two or three hundred people in front of me. Whether you like it or
not, I go on speaking to you; I keep saying whatever occurs to me. I
treat you as if you were lifeless.
But if any of you approach me, I
shall have to listen carefully and answer questions after a great
deal of thinking. But now, I make you sit still here for hours
together. The collective, the body, continues to live and move. Thus we have two contradictory ways of thinking. The conclusions you come to, depend on your point of view. Creation assumes the color of the spectacles you wear. 21. Some give more importance to the individual, some to society. This is because of the spread in society of the concept of struggle for existence. But is existence meant for struggle? Rather than this, why don't we die? Conflict is on the side of death. It is because of this, that we distinguish between svaartha and paramaartha, between one's own good and supreme good, the good of the Self. |
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