Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
If it is sin to kill a rich person, the acquisition of his property is the fruit of merit. If it is harmful for the strong to destroy the weak, how is it that the big fish that devour the small ones are not annihilated through lack of progeny? Couples get married at auspicious moment after a proper enquiry into the background of their families with the object of begetting good progeny. But the lower orders progeny - who gets them married after fixing the auspicious time for their marriages? Have the stolen riches ever proved poisonous to anyone? Do persons, who commit adultery out of love, ever suffer from leprosy (301-305)? The scriptures say that there is god who rules the world and dispenses the fruits of actions, both righteous and unrighteous and one has to suffer the fruit of one’s actions, in the next world. But all this is false, as no one can see the next world or god. When the doer of the meritorious deed or sin meets his death, who remains to experience the fruit of his actions? As we see, the worms find pleasure in refuse as much as the Lord of heaven does in the company of nymph Urvashi. So neither heaven nor hell is a reward for merit or retribution of sin. In both cases, it is the satisfaction of sexual urge, which brings happiness. The world is born and sustained through the union of men and women under the urge of passion (306-310). This passion promotes whatever is beneficial to man and (when it is thwarted) it destroys the world through mutual hatred. The men of demoniacal temperament thus aver that there is no other cause of the world, except sexual passion. Let us stop this discussion on an odious subject, which only exhausts the tongue.
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