| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE YOGA OF COMPLETENESS - SEEING THE LORD EVERYWHERE |
| 23. People ask, "Where are the
Vedas?" My brother, they are in your hands. I am the Vedas living and awake.
All the generations that have gone before have found their fulfillment in me. I am the fruit of
this long line. From
the seed of the Vedas came this fruit. In my fruit are gathered the seeds of endless
Vedas. The Vedas within
me have increased five-fold and fifty-fold.
24. The truth is, the essence of the Vedas, is in our hands. We have to build our lives on the foundations of service, love and knowledge. That is what is meant by saying that the Vedas, are in our hands - The meaning that I see in the Vedas, not something, somewhere, outside. The saints, who are the embodiment of the service, declare, "It is we who know the meaning of the Vedas." The Lord says, "Me alone all the Vedas know. I am the light of the Vedas, their essence, the Purushottama." If we can make this essence of the Vedas, the Purushottama-yoga, our own, if we can make it part of our lives, what joy it would be! The Gita shows us how the Vedas themselves are revealed in the actions of such man. In this Chapter is present the whole essence of the Gita. The whole of its teaching is revealed here. All of us should labor day and night to inform our lives with it. What else? |
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