Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
The Lord will now speak to fulfill that desire and to describe the glory of the Divine endowment, which conduces to knowledge and also enhances the peace of the mind. He will also explain, the terrible form of the demoniacal endowment, which lends support to passion and hatred through the knowledge of the sense-objects (56-60). The subject of these two endowments, which respectively lead to desirable and undesirable actions, was mentioned briefly in the ninth chapter and should have been treated fully there. But this could not be done as other subjects intervened, and so the Lord will broach the same subject now. This discourse is contained in the sixteenth chapter and should be treated as a detailed exposition of the former statement. Thus there are two endowments, of which, one is conducive to knowledge, and the other detrimental to it. Now, first listen to the description of the divine endowment, which keeps one company in his march towards liberation and is like a torch in the form of duty, which shows the way in the dark night of delusion (61-65). If one gathers at one place many things, which mutually support one another, such a collection of things is called an endowment. It is called Divine endowment, if it promotes happiness and is secured by a person only through good luck. |
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