| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| Don't think this is fiction. Love
certainly has such power. We speak of the venom of the snake, but have men less of it? The snake
stings now and then and it is never the first to hurt. Nine out of ten
snakes are not poisonous. They guard your fields. They live on the many kinds of vermin that destroy
your crop. This helpful creature, so clean, so powerful, this lover of
solitude, is an image to the Lord. Snakes are connected in one way or another with all our deities.
Ganesha wears one round his waist. Shiva warps one round his neck. And Vishnu sleeps on one as his bed. Realize the secret, the charm of it. The meaning of it all is that the Lord's form is manifested through the snake. Recognize the Lord who dwells in the serpent. 20. How many such examples shall I give? All I am doing is to use the imagination. The whole essence of the Raamaayana lies is this beautiful power. The love of father and son, the love of mother and child, the love of brothers, the love of husband and wife - all this is found in the Raamaayana. But it is not because of these things that the Raamaayana is dear to me. It is dear to me because Rama made friends with the monkeys. People today say that these monkeys belonged to the Naga tribe. It is the job of the historians to research into the things of the past. I have nothing against their labours, but if Rama made friends with real monkeys, what is there impossible in that? The Ramatva, the Rama-ness of Rama, his charm, lies precisely here that he made friends with monkeys. |
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