| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE KINGLY ART OF SERVICE TO HUMANITY - THE YOGA OF DEDICATION |
No need for special activity17. It is not as if we should dedicate to the Lord only particular kinds of action. We should dedicate to him all our action as such. With what love Rama accepted the fruit offered by Sabari! One need not go and sit in a cave to worship God. Whatever action you perform, wherever you may perform it, surrender it to God. The mother waiting on her child waits on God. When she bathes her child, she is performing Rudra-abhisheka for God. The mother, regarding the child as a gift from God, should tend it with devotion. How tenderly did Kausalya care for Rama and Yasoda for Krishna. Suka, Valmiki and Tulasidas consider themselves lucky in describing this tenderness and do it with unbounded enthusiasm.The mother's act of tender care is indeed noble. What greater fortune could come to her than serving the image of the Lord, her child? When we serve each other, if only we did it with this attitude, how could our actions be transformed! We should have the bhavana that whatever work comes to us is the service of the Lord Himself. 18. The farmer serves his bullock. Is the bullock to be despised? No, the bull that Vamadeva, in the Vedas, describes as pervading the universe in the form of shakti (energy), is present in the farmer's bullock too.
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