Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
O winner of wealth, as ignorance is the cause of the wakeful state and sleep, so I am the root cause of the knowledge and ignorance of living beings (426- 430). Just as the rope is the cause of its illusory appearance as the serpent or its true knowledge, so I am the root cause of knowledge and ignorance, which is the basis of worldly existence. Therefore, O Dhananjaya, not knowing My essential nature, the Vedas made an attempt to know Me, giving rise to a number of different schools. Yet they all impart knowledge in regard to Myself, as all rivers going East or West ultimately join the sea. Just as the fragrant breeze stops in the sky, so the Vedas are reduced to nonplus, when they come across the great utterance, ‘I am myself the great Brahman’. In this way, when the scriptures become dumb out of shame, I help them to reveal the nature of Brahman (431-435). I am the knower of that pure knowledge, in which the world along with the scriptures becomes merged. Just as when a person wakes up from sleep, he knows that all things which he saw in a dream were not different from him, but that he himself had become them, so I know My non-dual nature, which is free from the limiting conditions of the world and I am Myself the cause of its realisation. O Arjuna, when the camphor gets burnt, it leaves neither soot nor fire, so the knowledge after destroying ignorance ceases and no one can definitely say that it exists or ceases (436-440). Who can trace the thief and where, who takes away the universe without leaving any trail? |
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