| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| The Sixth Chapter describes the
means to one-pointedness - meditation, and as aids to meditation, practice (abhyasa) and
detachment (vairagya). The Seventh Chapter teaches us the noble and comprehensive means
of devotion (bhakti). Go to the Lord with love; go in search of knowledge; go seeking the good of
the world; go for your personal need - go for whatever reason, only reach His presence once. We give
this chapter the title of prapatti-yoga, the yoga that impels you to surrender to the Lord. This
surrender has to be constantly practiced; the yoga to Constancy (saatatya-yoga)
is found in the Eighth Chapter.
You will not find these names in the books, but they have been useful to me. Saatatya-yoga means continuing one's sadhana to the end of one's life. The road that we have set out on, we should tread without stopping till we reach the end. There is no hope of ever reaching the goal if we walk how and when we like. We should never grow disgusted or despondent and complain. "How long are we to go on doing this sadhana?" Till we attain the fruit, the 'sadhana' (discipline) should continue without pause. 3. Having introduced us to the saatatya-yoga, the yoga of Constancy, the Lord, in the Ninth Chapter, teaches us a truth commonplace in itself, but capable of transforming the whole quality of life - and this is raja-yoga. |
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