| If the mother is asked, "You can keep only one of these two sons.
Which of them would you have?" What answer could she give? Which son would she choose?
Could she weigh them in a balance? Considering the mother's situation, what would be her
natural answer? In her helplessness, she would say, "If I must give up one of
them, I shall reconcile myself to parting from the elder son." She holds
the little child closer to herself, she cannot let him go.
Drawn by the younger child, she might say something like,
"It would not matter so much if the elder son goes." But this is no real answer to
the question, which of the sons she loves more. She says it because she has to say something. But it
would not be right to dig into the meaning of her words.
5. The Lord had to face the same difficulty as this mother when Arjuna
questioned Him. Arjuna asked, Lord You have two kinds of bhaktas. One
of them loves you dearly and always thinks of you. His eyes yearn to see you,
his ears to hear your praise, his hands and feet to serve you. The other, more self-reliant,
self-controlled, concerned for the welfare of all creatures is so absorbed, day and night in the
disinterested service of society, that he seems not to think of you at
all. He is a bhakta filled with a sense of oneness.
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