Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
21. For purusha, dwelling in prakriti, experiences the qualities born of prakriti; his attachment to the qualities is the cause of his birth in good or evil wombs. He (the Self ) is bodyless and crippled, indigent and single and the oldest of the old. He is known as purusha, but one cannot say whether he is male, female or neuter. He does not have eyes and ears nor hands and feet nor form and he does not have a name or any organs. He is the spouse of prakriti and has to experience pleasure and pain. Although he is inactive, indifferent and a non-enjoyed, prakriti, his faithful consort, makes him experience sensuous pleasures (981-985). The prakriti sports with him wonderfully, by cajoling him with her beauty and qualities. As she consists of qualities, she is known as gunamayi, nay, she is the quality incarnate. She assumes new forms, changing every moment and her energy energises even the inert things. She gives publicity to names, makes love lovable and makes the sense organs sensible. Although the mind is neuter, she makes it roam all over the world such is her extraordinary feat (986-990). She is an isle of enchantment, an all-pervasive presence, which gives rise to emotions galore. This prakriti is the bower of creepers, in the form of desires and the spring in the woods of infatuation and is well known by the name of Divine Maya. It is she, who expands the scope of literature, gives name and form to the formless, and she carries on the raids of worldly existence. She is the source of all arts and lores, of desires and passions and of knowledge and activity. She is the mint of sonorous sound and the home of miracles, in fact the panorama of the world is her Divine play (991-995). |
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