Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
That state where not to talk is to talk, not to know is to know, nothing happening is happening, is the Supreme Self. In that state, even the notion ‘I am Brahman’ ceases, the teller becomes what is told, and the seer vanishes along with object to be seen. Can we say that the light ceases to exist, when the sun’s disc and its reflection in water ceases to exist? We cannot say that the fragrance does not exist, because the fragrance standing between the flower and nostril cannot be perceived. In the same way, can one ask, ‘What is it that remains, when both the person who sees and the object to be seen, cease to exist’? Whatever comes to be experienced in that state, is its form (541-545). That which illumines in the absence of the object to be illumined, which regulates in the absence of the thing to be regulated, abides in his pristine stage. It is he, who is the inarticulate sound, which gives the power of hearing sound, the original flavour, which gives the power of taste, the bliss which gives the power of enjoyment. It is he who is the Supreme Person among the purushas, the acme of perfection, the resting place of rest, the joy of happiness, the splendour of the splendid and the great void in the void. He is beyond the expansion or the dissolution of the world, and is the greatest among all great things (546-550). As the mother-of-pearl, even without becoming silver, seems like silver to the ignorant or the gold assumes the form of the ornament without ceasing to be gold, so he supports the universe without assuming the form of the universe. Just as there is no distinction between water and the wave, so the universe is not different from the Supreme Self. O great warrior, he is the cause of the contraction and the expansion of the world, as the moon is the cause of the contraction and expansion of its reflection in water. He does not undergo any change when he assumes the form of the universe and does not disappear when the universe disappears. Just as the sun does not assume two different forms during the day and the night (551-555), so he does not perish in any state. He can be compared only with himself. |
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