Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
14. Although devoid of all senses, it seems to possess their qualities. It is unattached and yet supports all. Though beyond the qualities, it experiences them. O Arjuna, that Brahman is like this. Just as the sky pervades all space, or yarn assumes the form of cloth, liquidity assumes the form of water, or light assumes the form of lamp, as the fragrance of camphor remains in the form of camphor, or action remains in the form of the body or gold remains in the form of a granule, so this Brahman pervades all things (891-895). But when the gold is in the form of a granule, it remains gold. O Arjuna, even when the current of water is crooked and runs in a zigzag way, the water flows straight and always gives pleasure. When the iron becomes red-hot by heat, does it cease to be iron? The sky enclosed in a round pot, appears round, but it looks quadrangular in the quadrangular space of a hermitage; but the sky is neither round nor quadrangular. So Brahman does not become modified by its apparent modifications. It appears as if Brahman has become modified into mind, senses, etc. and the three qualities (gunas) (896-900). But just as the sweetness does not reside in the lump of jaggery, but in jaggery itself, so the senses and the qualities do not constitute Brahman. O Arjuna, clarified butter exists in milk in milkform, and yet milk is certainly not the clarified butter. |
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