| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| INTRODUCTION : THE YOGA OF DESPONDENCY |
| 4. The Mahabharata has become a byword for bigness; but has not Vyasa anything of his own to tell us? Has he
given in any place any special message of his own? Where is Vyasa's heart beat to be
heard? Again and
again we come to jungle upon jungle of philosophy and preaching in the Mahabharata;
but has he also given
anywhere the essence of all this, the central secret of this massive work? Yes,
he has. Vyasa has, so to speak, taken out the cream of the whole of Mahabharata and put it in the Gita.
The Gita forms the epitome of the 5. Everyone knows that the Gita was spoken by Sri Krishna. The devotee Arjuna, who listened to this great lesson, became so identified with it that he too came to be called 'Krishna'. Vyasa, trying to express the heart of the Lord and his lover, lost himself so completely that he too came to be called 'Krishna'. The speaker is Krishna, the listener is Krishna, the reporter is Krishna - thus all the three have, so to speak, become one, each fulfilling himself in this oneness. To study the Gita, then, a concentration of this kind is necessary. |
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