Talks on the Gita -Vinoba 104

Chapter 10 CONTEMPLATION OF GOD’S MANIFESTATIONS 50. An Easy Way to Learn To See God 6. This vast creation is like the Lord’s Book. When our eyes are covered with thick veils, we think that the Book is closed. Everywhere in this Book, the name of the Lord is written in beautiful letters. But we fail to read that. A major obstacle is that a man does not recognise the Lord in the ordinary and simple forms which are near him and His distant and dazzling manifestations are too difficult to grasp. If you tell him to see God in the mother, he will say, “Is God so simple?” But if the Lord appears before you with His dazzling splendour, will you be able to stand the sight? Kunti wished to see the sun-god face to face, but when he approached her, she could not stand the scorching heat. We cannot bear the Lord with all His power and glory. But we do not accept Him in milder and gentler forms. We cannot digest sweets made from milk and do not relish ordinary milk! These are the symptoms of our wretchedness and doom. Such a sick mind is a great obstacle that prevents us from seeing Him. We must discard this state of mind.