| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE YOGA OF ACTION |
| 7. The karma-yogi's action unites him with all creation. If we will not eat without first watering the tulasi plant, we
create, by this resolve, a bond of love between ourselves and the vegetable kingdom. How can I
eat, while leaving the tulasi hungry? Learning in this way to identify
ourselves with the cow and the tulasi, we must attain oneness with the whole universe. In the
Mahabharata war, everybody, at sunset, leaves the field for evening prayer, but Lord Krishna unyokes
the horses from the chariot, gives them water, rubs them down, removes the
burrs from their bodies.
What a joy the Lord finds in this service! In describing this, the poet knows no weariness. Picture it to yourself. The Lord Parthasarathi (the Lord as Arjuna's charioteer) feeds the horses from his yellow silk (Pitambar), which he has filled with gram. And thus you will experience in imagination the joy of karma-yoga. Take it that every act is a noble, spiritual, consecrated act. Take Khadi-work itself. Does the man who hawks Khadi in the streets, with a bundle on his back, never get tired? No, because he is absorbed in the thought that he has to feed the millions of his brothers and sisters in this country who are naked and starving. This selling of a yard of Khadi makes him one with Daridranarayana (God in the form of the poor). |
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