Page:My Dear Pranav.pdf/23

 he reaches a higher level of thinking. He takes a bath along with this emotional cleansing. His mind also gets clean with his body. The same action gives different benefits to different people. This way, even a dirty bull takes a bath in the Ganga and gets an H20 benefit of physical cleaning, but he cannot get this higher satisfaction,

Vinoba thereafter says that when someone wears kbadi, he not only satisfies his physical need of covering his body, but also keeps the home fires burning in many a poor weavers’ houses. He helps them eat at least once a day. He wears cnough khadi cloth with this emotional involvement. A woman who offers water to tulsi before eating is joining hereself to the total living creation in the world. By her action she becomes aware of the ecosystem around her.

Vinoba explains a lot of rituals in this way and invests them with a deeper meaning. You can find more in such things when you think about them. This is the beauty of the szras in Hindu thought.

As a Hindu, you are not bound by a book or a word. You can interpret words in your own way. That is why ideas have always remained totally free in India. Different philosophies and ideas have flourished together. All of them are right, from one view point or another.

With love,

Yours, L.N. Godbole

e 18th March, 1990 My dear Pranav,

Many people have wrong impressions about Gandhian thought. Vinoba expressed all his ideas in the local idiom. The

13 �