| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| ANOTHER SUPPLEMENT : PROGRAMME FOR THE SEEKER |
| Take three or
four names from ancient times, four or five from the Middle Ages,
and seven or eight of today, add to them the Himalayas and the
Ganga, and we have India. This is the definition of India. The
rest is only a commentary on it, an expansion of it. From milk we
get curds, and from curds butter-milk and butter; there is no
conflict. To determine the quality of the milk, we determine its
butter coefficient.
The worth of a society is judged by its individuals. There is no conflict between the individual and the society. How can there be? Even between one individual and another, there should be no conflict. If one is better endowed than another, what does it matter? No one should suffer privation, and the riches of the rich should benefit the society. That is enough. Does it make any difference whether my money is in my left pocket or my right pocket? After all, both are mine. When someone is rich, I am rich, the nation is rich - we establish this in practice. But we erect these walls of difference. If the body and the head are separated they would both die. Therefore, do not separate the individual and the society. The Gita teaches just this, how one and the same action destroys the difference between svaartha and paramaartha, the good of oneself and the good of the Self.
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