The Gita according to Gandhi 113

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DHYANAYOGA AND BHAKTIYOGA (Discourse 12) as much for Chaitanya whom the name of Krishna was enough, to melt into ecstacies as for Ramkrishna Paramahansa whom a vision of Kali, the Mother, sent into the same rapturous trances. Names and forms and symbols do not matter, provided the hold on the Reality is unshaken. It is gross intolerance to label the worship of a personal God as "crass idolatry". There is no idolatry so gross as the slavery to the letter and slavery to the lusts of the flesh. The true devotee never loses sight of the Reality. Vasudeva Kirtikar quotes a beautiful abhanga of Tukaram. The poet-saint sings: