| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| Does it not capture the hearts of little children? The
little child refuses to take food, cooped up in the house. One has to
take him out into the open yard and show him crows and sparrows before he can be persuaded to eat.
Is the child mad that he loves the crow? Far from it, he is full of wisdom. At once the child becomes
one with the Lord in the form of the crow. The mother may pour curds
or milk on the rice, or cover it with sugar - nothing pleases the child.
His pleasure is in the crow that flaps its wings, and cocks its head.
All the fables of Aesop are based on the child's lively interest in the he objects of creation. Aesop saw the Lord everywhere. Among the books I love I should give first place to Aesop's Fables; I shall never forget it. Aesop's kingdom is not peopled only with human beings with two hands and two feet. In it, foxes, dogs, crows, deer, hares, tortoises, snakes, worms, all talk and laugh. It is a huge conference. The whole of creation speaks to Aesop. He had the divine vision. The Raamaayana too is based on this truth, on this vision. Tulsidas describes the lila play of Rama as a child. Rama is playing in the courtyard. A crow comes near and Rama approaches it slowly to catch it. The crow jumps back. At last Rama gets tired. But then an idea comes to him. He takes a sweet in his hand and draws nearer to it. As he stretches out his hand further, the crow comes closer. Tulsidas gives a page to this description; because the crow is the Lord. The same divinity is present in the crow as well as in Rama. The coming together of Rama and the crow is the union of the Supreme with the Supreme. |
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