Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-11
The Universal Form
41. Regarding You as a friend, I recklessly accosted You as ‘O Krishna’, ‘O Yadava’, ‘O friend’, not knowing this greatness of Yours, out of indifference or love. O Lord, not knowing your real nature, I behaved with you, as if you were my kinsman. Alas, this was an improper act on my part. I used nectar to cleanse the floor, exchanged the wishyielding cow for a colt and cut the philosophers’ stone which I had come across for foundation work. I cut the wish-yielding tree to prepare a hedge for my farm, and when I had chanced upon a mine of philosophers’ stones, I utilized these stones to drive away vagrant cattle. I used to take undue advantage of my intimacy with you (536-540), as on this present occasion. What is this warfare! How paltry! But I have prevailed upon you, the Supreme Brahman, to become my charioteer. O liberal Lord, we sent you to the Kauravas as our envoy to negotiate terms of peace with them. Although you are a mighty God, we have as it were, bartered you to make paltry gains. The fool that I am, I did not recognise you to be the object of the rapturous samadhi of the yogis and used it to tick you off. |
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