Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
It makes a cracking sound, if water is sprinkled over it and is extinguished with a breeze. If it touches anything, it does not leave even a blade of grass unburnt and it gives less light and more heat. Like such a lamp, he is a man of bookish learning. Just as milk, given as medicine aggravates the enteric fever, or snake fed with milk vomit poison, so he is envious of virtuous men and full of conceit, for his learning and austerities. He becomes puffed up like a pariah who has become a prince, or like a python that has swallowed a pillar. He never bends like a rolling-pin (721-725). His heart never melts like a stone and even a good man cannot hold him in check, as snake-charmer cannot cure the bite of an asp. In short, I shall tell you positively that his ignorance is on the increase. O Arjuna, he does not think of his household, body, wealth and his present birth. An ungrateful, wretch forgets the favours done to him or thief forgets the capital given to him for his business or a shameless person forgets the praise offered to him. When a vagrant dog is driven away from the house with its ears and tail cut, it comes back dripping blood (726-730). A toad, swallowed by a snake goes on eating innumerable flies, without realising its imminent death. In the same way, he is not distressed by the fact that, he is suffering from a cutaneous disorder brought on by the discharges from the nine gates of his body. |
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