Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
Mankind has full faith in the Vedas and so holds God who illumines the world in high reverence (226-230). It aspires for a high place, even sovereignty in the universe and likes that it should not meet with death. There can be no dispute about this. If, therefore, men sing zealously the praise of Vedas and God, he becomes furious with envy after hearing it. He says, ‘I shall swallow God, destroy the Vedas and their authority with my might’. In the way the moth dislikes the light of the lamp, the glow-worm hates the sun or the lapwing bears enmity with the sea, he does not bear through conceit to hear even name of God, if uttered in his presence. He treats even his father with a hostile feeling out of fear that he will ask for a share in his wealth (231-235). He is a person, who is stiff with self-importance, overbearing and full of infatuation. This conceit is a high-way to hell. (Now hear about wrath). His mind (ie. of a demoniacal person) is poisoned by fiery wrath, when he happens to see others happy. If a drop of water is added to boiling water, it shoots up and when the jackal sees the moon, he becomes furious. The owl loses its vision at the rising of the sun, which illumines the world. The morning which gives pleasure, is more painful to the thief than death and milk given to a serpent turns into poison (236-240). The submarine fire flares up by drinking sea water and never cools down. In the same way, when he sees the learning, luxurious living and good fortune of others, he becomes flush with anger. Know that this is wrath. Now hear about harshness - he whose mind is like the hole of a serpent, whose sight is as fiery as a sharp-pointed arrow, whose speech is like the shower of live coals, whose actions are like a sharp saw and whose conduct is painful to others, is vile among men and harshness incarnate. |
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