| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| PRAPATTI OR SURRENDER TO GOD |
| Tolstoy
says, "A man might even commit murder under the influence of
cigarettes." It is a kind of intoxication. Why does man lose
himself in such pleasure? Because he does not know where his true
joy lies. Man is beguiled by shadows. He derives his pleasure only
from his five senses. If he did not have the sense of sight, he
would imagine that the world offers only four kinds of pleasures.
If tomorrow, a man comes down from Mars with six senses, these poor people with only five would cry in sorrow, "Compared to him, how despicable we are!" How can the full meaning of the universe be apprehended by these five senses? Even among the objects of these five senses, man chooses only a few, and is lost in them. When the donkey's braying reaches his ear, he says in disgust, "What an inauspicious noise!" But is not the sight of you inauspicious to the donkey? If it hurts you, do you never hurt others, even granting that the braying of the donkey is inauspicious? When I was studying in Baroda College, some celebrated European musicians visited the College. No doubt, they sang marvelously, but since I was not used to that kind of music, I sat there wondering, when I could escape this infliction. I decided that they did not deserve to pass. |
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