| 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 |
All life can be filled with God20. The moments of our daily life may appear commonplace, but in reality they are not so, they carry enormous significance. All one's life is a great yajna-karma, a continual sacrificial performance. What is sleep? It is a kind of samadhi, an experience of oneness. If we surrender all our enjoyments to the Lord before we fall asleep, what is sleep but samadhi? There is a custom among us of reciting the hymns of purushasukta while taking a bath. Now what is the connection between the purushasukta and a bath? You will surely see if you try. What is the connection between the virat purusha, the Cosmic Person, with his thousand hands and thousand eyes and this, my bath?The connection is that, in the pitcher of water that you pour down on your head, there are thousands of drops. Those drops wash your head - they rid you of your sins. It is like the blessing of the Lord showered on your head. The thousand hands of the Lord are pouring a thousand streams on your head. Through these drops the Lord himself is purifying your mind and heart. If you pour this divine bhavana into this act, the bath will assume a new quality and acquire a boundless power.
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