Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-9
The Esoteric Knowledge
12. Others also worship Me with the sacrifice of knowledge, as one and separately as the manifold, with face on every side. In this knowledge-sacrifice, the original desire of Brahman to be many is the sacrificial post to which the animal is tied. The gross elements form the sacrificial pavilion and the sense of duality is the animal to be sacrificed. The qualities of the five gross elements and the senses and the prana are the very materials of sacrifice and ignorance is the ghee to be offered as oblation (236-240). The mind and the intellect are the sacrificial pits in which the fire is kindled and equanimity is the altar. The power to grasp discriminating thought constitutes the lofty Vedic hymns, tranquility the sacrificial ladle, and the embodied Self, the sacrifice. The latter performs knowledge-sacrifice with the vessels of experience, and by chanting the Vedic hymns of discrimination, destroys duality. When the ignorance comes to an end, neither the sacrificer nor the sacrifice remains and he performs the final ablution in the form of union with the Self. Then he comes to know with intuitive knowledge of the Self that the elements, senses and sense-objects are not different but form one whole (241-245). O Arjuna, on waking up a person says, “I had myself become under the influence of sleep the wonderful army in the dream; the dream was all a delusion, and there was nothing but myself, and in the same way he comes to realize that he is all this world.” Then all talk about the existence of separate being ends, and his mind becomes full with the unitary experience of Brahman. Thus some worship Me with knowledge-sacrifice culminating in the vision of unity |
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