13. There is no saying that there is joy or good in knowing the past and the future. Arjuna, overmastered by love, importunately demanded, and the Lord yielded, and revealed to him the vision of His cosmic form. But for me the little image of the Lord will suffice. This little image is not a fragment of the Supreme. And even if it were, even if I saw only a foot or the toe of a foot of His boundless body, I would say, "How blessed I am! How great is my good fortune!" I have learnt this from experience. When Shri Jamnalal Bajaj threw open to the Harijans the Lakshminarayan temple in Wardha, I too went there for darshan. 

For some fifteen or twenty minutes I stood gazing at the image. It was as if I was in samadhi. As I looked at the face, the chest, the hands and then the feet, my eyes were rooted in the feet. All that remained with me was the feeling, "Sweet indeed is the worship of Your Feet." If the great Lord cannot be contained within a little image, is not enough that we behold His Feet? Arjuna pleaded with the Lord; he could claim much from Him. How intimate was friendship, how great his love and affection! What claims have I? A sight of the Feet is enough for me. That is more than I deserve.

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