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crippled man, a dirty child or a crook as divine. It is easy
to see God in His glorious, beautiful form. It is easy to adorn
the temple deity with fine clothes and sandlewood tilak
and to cook for Him with love. It is easy to sacrifice our
own needs while we do the seva of a revered saint. It much
more difficult to extend the same love and selflessness to
those in whom we don’t see the direct embodiment of the
divine.
However, that is the task; that is the divine challenge. Our
vision is limited. We see only on the surface. We see only
the outer manifestations of what we perceive to be either
holiness or lowliness. And we make our judgments based
on these faulty perceptions. We give to those whom we
deem worthy; we give as much as we decide the other
needs. This is our mistake, and this is why we see Lord
Krishna wearing only half a shawl!
So, we must learn to cultivate divine vision. We must pray
for the sight that shows us God in everyone and in everything.
Who would give God only half a shawl? Who would
even hesitate before offering God all we have and all we
are? No one. In fact, our tradition is based on the very
idea that everything we are and everything we do is for
God. In yagna we say Idam namamah. “Not for me, but
for you.” Before we eat, we offer prasad to Bhagwan. We
will not take food until He has first been served.
So, as our world is flooded with poverty, with violence,
with hunger, with homelessness with destitution, let us
open not only our two physical eyes, but let us also open
our third eye, the divine eye. Let this eye show us God’s
existence in everyone, and let us serve others and treat
others just as though they were Lord Krishna Himself who
had come to us for assistance. Then, and only then, can
we obliterate the distress in the world.
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