| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONCLUSION - THE FULFILLMENT OF FRUIT - THE GRACE OF THE LORD |
Thou, Thou, Thou alone32. After having said all this, the Lord tells Arjuna, "You have heard with attention all that I have been saying. Now, Arjuna, consider fully, and do what you think right." Thus the Lord generously sets Arjuna free. This is the greatness of the Gita. But once again the Lord feels pity. The freedom of will that He gave to Arjuna, he takes back again.He says, "Arjuna, give up your will, your effort; give up everything, and come and take refuge in me." Thus inducing him to find refuge in Him, the Lord takes back the freedom of will He has just given. What this means is: Don't let any desire of your own arise in your heart. Rest with the thought "Not my will, but His be done." Let us of our own free will attain the experience that we do not want this freedom of will. Let us feel, "I am not. Thou alone art. Thou are everything." The goat when alive bleats "Me ... me ... me ..." that is, "I, I, I." But when it is dead and its guts are made into strings and mounted on the bow for carding cotton, then, as Dadu says it sings, "tuhi, tuhi, tuhi" - "Thou, Thou, Thou alone." Now all is "Thou, Thou, Thou alone."
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