| 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 |
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hungry I may be, what use is the fruit up there in the tree to me? I
look up at the coconut and the coconut looks down at me. How can it
quench the fire of my hunger, until it reaches my hands? These
various rites were filled with subtle ideas. How could the common
folk comprehend them? There is no moksha (liberation) except through
the Vedic path; but few had the fitness to study the Vedas. What
happens to the others, then?
6. Hence the saints, filled with
compassion, came forward saying, "Come, we shall take out the
essence of the Vedas. We shall give it to the world in a simple
form." Tukaram sings, "There are innumerable things in the
Vedas; but their substance is only this." The moksha that lay locked up in the Vedas as in strong box, the Lord has brought out and placed at the cross-road. What a direct and easy way to moksha! One's ordinary life, what one does as svadharma, one's acts of service, why not make this itself a yajna, a sacrifice? Where is the need for any other sacrifice, any yogas or yajnas? Regard as a yajna, and continue to perform, the ordinary work of service that you do every day. |
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