Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
Those who reach My abode never return, like the river which has joined the sea. Just as the salt statuette of a female elephant, immersed in the sea, never returns or the flames which rise up in the sky, do not come down, or the water sprinkled on the red hot iron dries up without leaving a trace, they become one with Me on the strength of pure knowledge and do not come to birth again (316-320). Then Arjuna, the prince of knowledge, said, “Oh Lord, you have indeed bestowed your grace on me. But I have a request to make, please give it due consideration. As for those who become merged in the Supreme Being, never to return to this mortal world, were they originally distinct from him or were they non-different from him? If they were distinct from time without beginning, then to say that they do not return, strikes me as inconsistent. How can the bees which go to sip the honey in the flowers become themselves flowers at any time? Similarly, the arrows after hitting the targets drop down and so come back. If on the other they were always non-different from you, then who meets whom? For how can a weapon pierce itself (321-325)? If the individual selves are not different from you, then one cannot talk about their union with you or separation from you, in the same way as one cannot talk about the body being different from its organs. |
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