| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| Though the boys were afraid of
the animal, to Panini it was a harmless delightful word. Seeing the tiger, he
began to explain the etymology of the world. The tiger ate Panini up.
But what if it did? The tiger liked the sweet smell of his body, and so
tore it and ate it up. But Panini did not run away because he was a worshipper of shabda-brahman
(God as the Word). For him all things had become one. In the tiger too he recognized God as the
Word.
Because of this greatness, he is reverently called "Bhagavan
Panini," in the commentaries where his name occurs. They express their deep gratitude to him for
opening with the instrument of knowledge the eyes of the blind world -
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