| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM |
| Not for us the cosmic form 10. Even if we see the cosmic form can we bear it? For a beautiful little image of the Lord I feel a sweetness of love, a sense of belonging, that I can never experience on seeing the cosmic form. Arjuna's state was not far different. He trembles and pleads at last, "Lord, let me see your dearfamiliar form again." Arjuna seems to tell us from his own experience, "Do not desire to see the cosmic form of the Lord." It is best that the Lord is seen pervading all the worlds, and all times, past, present and future. If that distant star should draw itself up into a ball of fire, come down and stand in front of me, what would happen to me? How peaceful those stars appear! They seem to speak to me from the far distance. But if the star that calms the eye from afar, came near, then it is a burning ball. I would be reduced to ashes. Let all things be where they are and as they are in this boundless vast creation of the Lord. What joy can there be in huddling them all up into a single room? Those thousands of pigeons in the aviary in Bombay, what freedom do they have? It is a depressing sight. The pleasure is in this, that creation is divided into three spheres, here, above and below. |
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