| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTEMPLATION OF THE DIVINE GLORY |
| An easy way to learn to see God 5. The methods we employ to teach children how to read, these same methods this Chapter employs to teach us to see God everywhere. We teach children the alphabet in two different ways. One method is to introduce the letters by writing them big and after they have learnt to recognize them, to reduce their size. It is the same 'A' and the same 'B'; only the letters were big then and are small now. This is one method. The other method is to teach the easy letters first and the complicated ones later. In just these ways we should learn to see God. First, we should see His presence clearly in the big things. The Lord manifest in mighty natural objects like the sea and the mountain catches our eyes at once. Once we have learnt to recognize the Supreme in these vast manifestations, once we have seen these mighty forms of God, we shall recognize that every drop of water and every grain of sand is filled with the same God. There is no difference in meaning between the capital 'A' and the small 'a' - between the gross and the subtle. This is one way. In the second method we recognize the supreme forms that are directly and easily seen, and then go on to more complicated forms. When the Lord is present in a natural way in person, we recognize Him easily.
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