Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
If they are all different from you, they can never become one with you. Is it not therefore, futile to raise the question whether they return to this world or not? Therefore, enlighten me, O Omni faced God, as to how they do not come back after attaining you.” Hearing this query of Arjuna, the omniscient Lord became pleased, seeing that Arjuna had attained full wisdom. Then the Lord said, those who attain to Me and do not return to this world can be said to be both distinct and non-distinct from Me (326-330). If you think deeply, you will realise, that they are one with me; but outwardly they seem to be distinct from Me. The ripples on the water appear distinct from it, but they are nothing but water. The gold ornaments appear different from gold; yet if you consider them properly they are all gold. In that way, O Arjuna, if you view it with the vision of wisdom, they have become one with Me; but they appear to be distinct, due to ignorance. If you think of Me as the Supreme Self, how can you entertain notions of distinction and non-disjunction from Me, who am single (331-335)? If the sun’s disc were to pervade the whole sky, where can it have its reflection and where can it send its rays? O winner of wealth, can there be anything like ebb and tide, when the whole world is covered with water at the time of deluge? How could there be parts in Me, who am one and immutable? But because of its currents, the water though straight, appears curved. Or when the sun is reflected in water, there seem to be two suns. How can you say that the space is square or round in form, but it appears to be so when it is enclosed in the earthen pot or a Matha (hermitage). When man dreams that he is a king, does he not constitute the entire world in the dream and pervade it (336-340)? When an alloy is mixed with gold, the combination is known as gold of different carats; so even though I am pure, I appear to be distinct as Self and God due to the limiting factor (upadhi) of Maya. Then only ignorance spreads all round and the doubt arises in the form of ‘Who am I’? and after a good deal of (confused) thought, one thinks, ‘I am the body’. |
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