| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE YOGA OF COMPLETENESS - SEEING THE LORD EVERYWHERE |
| But if life
is dry and the way dusty, stony, full of pitfalls, it would be indeed hard to drag the boat along. The principle of
bhakti, like water, makes easy the voyage of our life. Bhakti makes the path easy, but without Self-knowledge there is no hope of transcending the three gunas. Then, what is the means to Self-knowledge? It is to make sattva one's own by constancy in it and to try through bhakti to overcome the egoism of sattva and attachment to it. If we adopt this means and strive constantly,
unremittingly, then the vision of the Self will one day come to us. Till then we cannot come to the end of our
efforts. This is a matter concerning the highest goal of our life. Attaining the vision of the Self is not mere play.
We cannot expect to find it by the wayside. We should maintain a constant stream of effort. The condition of
spiritual life is the resolve, "I shall never give the slightest room to despair. I shall never - not even for a moment - The seeker sometimes asks in weariness: |
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