Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-10
The Divine Manifestation
9. With their mind and life centered on Me, extolling Me to one another, and constantly conversing about Me, they find solace and rejoice. Those who have become united with Me heart and soul, and become thoroughly contented, have become forgetful of birth and death in their passionate zeal for self-knowledge. Then they begin to dance, in sheer ecstasy, with the joy of conversation, exchanging their thoughts and experiences of self-knowledge (116-120). When two close-lying lakes in spate overflow into each other, their waters mingle and their waves rise into spirals, so in the union of selfrealised devotees, the ripples of their ecstatic joy get woven into a braid and the grandeur of self-knowledge of one displays itself, in harmony with the self-knowledge of the other. As if the sun should wave a light before another sun or the moon should embrace another moon, or two streams of equal flow should mingle with one another, so when such blessed souls come together, they form a confluence of sacred streams of Divine life, throwing up on its surface pure sentiments (sattvic bhavas). Then the devotees become as it were presiding deities on the high way in the form of a dialogue. Overflowing with this Supreme bliss, they forget their body-consciousness and proclaim loudly their rapturous joy at having attained union with Me (121-125). They declare to the whole world in a sonorous voice like that of clouds the secret and mystic mantra, which the master discloses in solitude to his disciple. Just as when a lotus blossoms, it is unable to contain its sweet smell within itself, and wafts it equally to prince and pauper, so these devotees, while singing My glory, become so absorbed in the soul’s joy that they become oblivious of everything and thereby lose their bodyconsciousness. Utterly oblivious of the time’s flow by day and night in this overflowing love for god, they remain settled in the enjoyment of their blissful union with Me.
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