Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
These thoughtful persons are like swans, that consume the milk of Self-knowledge, after separating it from the water, in the form of not-Self. Just as the sun sends showers of rain to the earth and absorbs it through his rays (by the process of evaporation), so the Supreme Self, which had seemingly become scattered into different directions, becomes consolidated into the vision of Self. Their thoughts become firmly grounded in the Supreme Self, as the flow of the river Ganga becomes merged in the sea. Just as the sky does not shift from one place to another, so when these men of wisdom become one with the Supreme Self, they do not entertain any desires (296-300). Like the seeds which do not grow on a volcano, passions do not arise in their minds. Just as the Sea of Milk became calm, after the churning rod in the form of Mandara was removed from it, so the ripples of desire do not agitate their minds. Like the full moon, which remains complete in all its sixteen phases, lacking nothing, they are not troubled by hope. How much more can I describe to you, such incomparable things about them? Just as the particles of earth cannot stand a (stormy) wind, so they do not like the sense-objects even mentioned before them. Those who have sacrificed the sense-objects in the fire of knowledge merge in that abode, as purified gold unites with pure gold (301-305). If you ask what is that abode in which they merge, it is that abode which never perishes, and which is not an object to be seen or known or in any way particularised. |
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