| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| Come what may. Let me perish of
hunger if I must. God will help me. How his skin tingles when we pat
him! And what a lovely mane he has! There is no end to his merits. What is there in
a bicycle? Look after a horse well and he will be ready to give up his life for you. He
will be your friend and stay with you. A friend of mine was learning to
ride. The horse used to throw him off. He said, "The horse will not let
me keep my seat." I said to him, "Do you only attempt to ride the horse, or do you also feed him and
look after him? When someone serves him, how can you ride him?
Feed him yourself and give him water, rub him down and then try to ride him." He did so and said to me after a few days, "The horse doesn't throw me off now." The horse is a form of the Lord. And would He throw off a servant? The horse yielded to his devotion. The horse wants to know whether you are a devotee or not. The Lord Krishna would rub down the horse Himself, and feed them out of his yellow silk garment. If there is a puddle or a ditch to cross, the bicycle stops, but the horse jumps over. This beautiful and loving animal is a form of the Lord. 17. And the Lion! When I was in Baroda I would get up in the morning listening to its majestic roar. The majestic beauty of his voice thrilled my heart. The magnificent sound proceeding from his heart was like the sound one hears in the inmost shrine of a temple. |
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