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137 vision of the call, “Vasudevam sarvam", that is, “All is God, all is Vasudev," or "Vasudev pervades all."148 For this purpose
"...you have to manifest in your life the Gita's knowledge as well as the Bhagavat's Love--and all this through karma in life's Kurukshetra (battlefield). In other words, you must take to Karma founded on Knowledge and Love, which may be assimilated to realising the Divine in daylight... You are His celestial manifestation-as Arjun in Kurukshetra, and Gopi in
Brindaban."149
It seems that Anirvan stressed the importance of all the three paths of action, knowledge and love in the realization of God. All true inner progress, Anirvan assumes, is prompted by atmadeep (soul's flame) which once lit, cannot be put out. This flame sustains the individual through all obstacles and helps him progress towards Truth. He attempted to realise in his life the gospel of karma taught by Sri Krishna to Arjun in the Gita (11/40). Sri Krishna assured Arjun that:
In the Yoga of action nothing you undertake Can ever be in vain, nor obstacles prevail. For even an iota of righteousness
Friend, shall deliver you from cosmic fear. 150
Anirvan saw people around him working tirelessly. He worked with the same zeal at his Guru's monastery. He did not work to get God-realization or self-realization, but as he worked ceaselessly, selflessly, and with love, he affirms, he got "self-realisation, God-realisation and experiences of shakti.” He adds:
There is one 'Narayan' (God) and innumerable 'Naras' (human beings). God is beyond time, birth and death. Everyone accepts this truth according to his or her capacity. This is the play and
counterplay of the many."151
Anirvan has faith that our every single impulse derives from Him who pervades everything and everywhere for ever. Hence, all of our actions, he informs Roy, should be done as the duty and worship to Lord to attain perfection. The doer should surrender completely to Lord with the prayer that He should mould him as He wills.
He preaches this from his own practice When he was staying in his guru's ashram, he worked for twenty one hours daily like a veritable peasant. While working, he heard a mystic song in his heart:"It is your work, my Lord, give that I may do it to perfection."152 He served Him as a loving wife serves her husband. Then Anirvan experienced that He caressed his eyes with light, his heart became full and in every vein currents of power flowed continuously. He unveiled His own mystery to Anirvan. Anirvan, very tenderly suggests to Roy:
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