Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-10
The Divine Manifestation
41. Whatever being is majestic, excellent or mighty, know that to have sprung from a fragment of My splendour. O winner of wealth, whoever possesses wealth and compassion, know that to be My manifestation. 42. Or what is the use of your knowing all these details, O Arjuna? Pervading this whole Universe, I abide in it with a fragment of Myself. But the sun’s disc exists in the sky, yet its light fills the entire universe. In the same way, he is neither alone nor destitute, whose command is obeyed all over the world. Does the wishyielding cow have to gather materials to fulfill the desires of others? No, she gives to anyone whatever he desires all at once. So every manifestation of Mine possesses abundant majesty (306-310). Know that this is the one characteristic by which one can recognise My manifestations. Those manifestations before whom the whole world prostrates itself, obeying their orders, are My incarnations. But it is a great error to distinguish between My manifestations as high and low, as I am this whole universe. Why should you therefore, debase your reason by imagining distinctions in My manifestations as common and extraordinary? Why should one churn clarified butter unnecessarily or boil nectar and lose half of it? Does the wind have right and left? If one were to see the front and the rear of the sun, he will only lose his sight. So there are no gradations of high and low in My Divine being (311-315). O Arjuna, I have innumerable manifestations of different kinds; how can you count them? So give up this effort to know Me. As I have pervaded this world with a fraction of My Divine being, give up the notions of distinctions and worship My different manifestations with the same consideration. |
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