Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
He does not become tired of committing sinful actions, nor has he any liking for good actions and in this he gives up all sense of shame. He turns his back on family tradition, keeps away from the injunctions of the Veda and is unable to decide between proper and improper actions. He is uncontrolled like a bull dedicated to God or like a strong wind or like a flooded canal which has breached its banks. He runs amuck after sensuous enjoyments, like a blind elephant in a rut or a conflagration on a mountain. What is not thrown in a rubbish-heap? Who can control an unrestrained bull dedicated to God? Who does not cross the threshold of the village gate (696-700)? Just as anyone can take food in a free kitchen or an ordinary person invested with authority exercises it recklessly, or anyone can enter the shop of a merchant, so all kinds of thoughts crowd in his mind. Know that ignorance has increased in such a person. He does not give up his sensuous desires; whether alive or dead and tries to acquire merit on this earth in order to gain enjoyments in heaven. He toils hard all the time to gain sensual pleasures, prefers optional rites in order to fulfill his desires and if he sees a holy man, he feels defiled and takes a bath with clothes on. Even if the sense-objects turn away from him, he never tires of them and becomes alert. Just as a leper eats with his rotted hand (701-705), or a male donkey does not let go the female donkey, even if he is kicked by her in the nose. |
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