Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-9
The Esoteric Knowledge
Therefore, noble family, color and caste are of no account; what is of vital significance is to have love for Me. If devotion of whatever kind enters his mind and fills it with love for Me, then all his past life is effaced thereby. Streams remain as streams so long as they do not meet the Ganga; but they become one with the Ganga after joining it. We can distinguish wood as sandalwood or catechu, so long as they are not consumed by fire. Even so men are known by their different castes as Kshatriya, Vaishya, women or the lower caste knows men, so long as they do not attain to Me (456-460). This distinction by caste or as an individual becomes naught, when they become merged into Me through devotion, like salt merged into the sea. Rivers and streams are known to be flowing East or West, only until they join the sea. By whichever path a devotee’s mind enters My Divine being, it becomes one with Me of its own accord. When iron is used to break the philosopher’s stone, the moment it touches the stone it changes into gold. Did not the minds of milkmaids of Gokul become united with My eternal being, through love (461-465)? |
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