| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONCLUSION - THE FULFILLMENT OF FRUIT - THE GRACE OF THE LORD |
| 26.
In this last state, there are three attitudes. One is that of
Vamadeva. His famous declaration is, 'All that there is in the
universe, that am I.' The jnani, the seer, becomes ego-less.
He loses attachment to the body, he reaches the end of activity as
such. Now he attains a new state of being. This state cannot be
contained in one body.
A state of beings is not a state of activity. It is the state in which bhaavanaa is most pervasive and intense. We can in some measure, experience this state of being. The mother becomes guilty because of the sin of the child. She becomes virtuous because of his virtue, sad because of his sorrow, and happy because of his happiness. This experience of identity, in the case of the mother, is limited to her child. She looks upon child's sins as her own. The seer too, by the power of this bhavana takes upon himself the sins of all the world. Though he is a sinner because of the sins of the three worlds, and a saint because of the virtues of the three world, even then, none of the sins and none of the virtues can touch him.
"yavaascha me tilaascha me godhuumaascha me,""Give me jowar, give me sesame, give me wheat." How big must be the stomach of this rishi, who thus keeps demanding everything! But he who demands all this is not the six-foot body, but his Self, assuming the form of the entire universe. |
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