| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| What does this mean? In means
that, now that we have mastered the easy letters, we can proceed to the
difficult ones. Carlyle has written a book on "Hero Worship." There he
describes Napoleon as a hero, as a manifestation of God. What is found there is not the pure
Supreme, but a mixture - but even this should be understood. So in Tulsidas, Ravana is called Rama's
enemy-bhakta. Yes, the nature and conduct of this bhakta is rather peculiar.
By contact with fire, the foot swells up in blisters, but the swelling subsides when a hot fomentation's is applied. It is one and the same fire, but it manifests itself differently in different circumstances. Though manifested differently in Rama and in Ravana, it is the same Supreme that is present in both. Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - learn all this and realize in the end that there is no place where the Lord is not. In every atom He alone is present. From the ant to the universe He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.
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