| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM |
| The full vision in the small image 6. In this Chapter is found a beautiful and entrancing description of the divine form. Though all this is true, I am not particularly drawn to this vishvaruupa. I am quite satisfied with a small image. I have learned to enjoy the sweetness of the small and common but beautiful image before me. The Lord is not cut up into little parts. It does not seem to me that the form of the Lord that we can see is only a part of Him and that the rest is left out; but I see that the Lord who pervades this vast universe is present in His fullness in the little image, in the grain of sand. There is no question of greater or less. The sweetness of the ocean of nectar is found in every drop of it. I have got a tiny little drop of amrita (nectar of immortality); I feel that I should enjoy for ever the sweetness of that drop. I chose the example of amrita, and not of milk or water, on purpose. A cup of milk is just as sweet as a pitcher of it; but though the taste is the same, the nutritive power is different. But there is no difference between a drop of amrita and a cup of it. Not only the sweetness but the nourishment is the same in the sea of nectar and in a drop of it. If we drink one drop of it, we gain the fullness of amritatva, immortality. In the same way, the same beauty and holiness that there is in the cosmic form of the Lord is also present in the little image. |
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