| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| God in Creature 15. And the animals that serve us! Mother Cow - how full of tenderness and attachment she is, how loving! How eagerly cows come running back up hill and down dale to their calves after going grazing all day long. The Vedic rishis, seeing the gurgling rives bringing pure water from the mountains, think of the heavy uddered cows returning lowing to their calves. The rishi says to the river, "Oh Goddess, you who bring holy, sweet and clean water, you are like the cow bringing milk to her calf. As the cow will not stay in the forest, so you cannot stay in the mountains. You come running fast to meet your thirsty children." "vaas hraa iva dhenavah syandamaanaah." 16. And then the horse! How beautiful, how true, how faithful! How dearly the Arabs love their horses? Don't you know the story of the Arab and his horse? He was driven by circumstances to sell his horse, and he made up his mind to do so. Carrying in his hand a purse full of gold coins, the price of the animal, he enters the stable. The moment he sees the noble and loving eyes of the horse, he flings the purse down exclaiming, "Even if I have to die, I will not sell my horse.
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