| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM |
| This so elusive present is all that
belongs to us. I am speaking now; but as the words come out of my mouth they have already joined the past.
Thus this great river of time flows continuously forward. We know neither its source nor its end; we see only a
little part of the flow in the middle.
4. If we look at creation in these two ways, as a tremendous expanse of Space and a tremendous flow of time, we cannot see the limits of it, however much we stretch our imagination. In Arjuna's heart arose a desire to behold the form of the Supreme, to see all at once the omnipresent Lord, who pervades all Time, past, present and future and all Space, here, above, below and everywhere. From this desire springs the Eleventh Chapter. 5. Arjuna was very dear to the Lord. How dear? So dear that naming in the Tenth Chapter the forms in which he should be contemplated, the Lord says, "Among the Pandavas think of me as Arjuna." Sri Krishna says, "paandavaanaam dhananjaya." Where can we find a stronger infatuation? This shows how love can make one mad. The Lord's love for Arjuna knew no bounds. The Eleventh Chapter is the gracious fulfillment of that love. Arjuna's desire to see the divine form, the Lord satisfied by endowing him with divine vision. He gave him the grace of His love. |
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