Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-10
The Divine Manifestation
Arjuna said: 12. You are the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme abode, the ultimate, the all-holy, the eternal Divine being, the perennial God, birthless, all-pervading. O Lord of the universe, you are the Supreme Brahman, the haven of rest for all the gross elements, the holiest of the holy. You are the Supreme deity of the triad of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesha, the Purusha, the twenty-fifth principle and also the being who is beyond Maya (145-150). O Lord, I know now that you are existent since eternity and you are without such qualities as birth and decay. You are the Supreme Being who pulls the strings of the past, present and future times, the guardian deity of the individual selves and the support of the universe. 13. So say all the seers, as also Narada, the Divine sage, Asita, Devala, Vyasa, and you too tell me so. And in another way also, I have come to know the truth of all this. Sages in the past too had told us such stories about you, but the truth of what they said has come home to me now. O God, this is all due to your grace. The Divine sage Narada used to visit our home and sing your glories; but we used to appreciate his sweet music and not its deeper meaning (151-155). T he sun shines in the house of the blind, they only feel its warmth, but how could they see its light? So when the Divine sage used to give us instruction in the doctrine of the Self, his musical notes only used to touch the chords of our hearts. I used to hear Asita and Devala also extol your Divine glory, but at that time my mind was filled with the poison of sensuous pleasures. So deadly is the poison that the Absolute Truth, which is really sweet tastes bitter, while the sensuous pleasures, although bitter, tastes sweet. Why talk of others? Even sage Vyasa used to come to our place and describe your glorious life (156-160). But then I was like a person, who, stumbling upon a philosopher’s stone (chintamani) in the dark, paid no attention to it, until he recognized its true value after the day dawned. So although the talks of Vyasa and others were veritable mines of gems of knowledge, I brushed them aside, until I saw their worth in the light of your instruction. |
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