| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| THE YOGA OF COMPLETENESS - SEEING THE LORD EVERYWHERE |
| 9. When in an ashrama some one has to do a lot of work, it never occurs to him to complain, "Why should I
alone do so much work?" There is a beauty in this. If the worshipper gets four hours instead of the usual two for
his worship, would he complain, "Good Lord, I had to worship for four hours today!"? On the contrary, he would rejoice all the more. One has experience in an ashrama. We should have this experience everywhere in life. Life should be consecrated to service. He is purushottama, the Supreme Person, who receives our service; and I, ever absorbed in His service an akshara-purusha, an imperishable person. "Akshara - purusha" means the eternal servant who knows no weariness and serves from the beginning of creation. He is like Hanuman who is ever standing before Rama with folded hands. He is an absolute stranger to laziness. Like Hanuman he stands, living for ever, absorbed in service. Such a lifelong servant is called akshara-purusha, the unchanging, the immortal Person. The Supreme Self lives; and I, His servant, I too live for ever. If the Master exists, then I too exist. Let us see who gets tired first, He
by accepting or I by offering service. If He has taken ten avatars, I too have had ten avatars. When He is Rama,
I am Hanuman. When He is Krishna, I am Uddhava. Every time He is born, I am born too. Let this happy rivalry go
on! The soul serves the Lord in this way, yuga after yuga, aeon after
aeon, and is never destroyed. This is the |
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