Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
10. Resorting to insatiable passion, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, they act with impure vows holding false views through delusion. Even if one pours water in a net, it does not get filled up and the fire is not satisfied with any quantity of firewood. So the demoniacal men resort to lust, which easily takes the first rank among insatiable things and which is hard to satisfy and give it the aid of hypocrisy and false pride. Just as an elephant in rut becomes wild if given an alcoholic drink, they get puffed up with pride as they grow old (321-325). When folly gets added to obstinacy, which is ingrained in their body, there is hardly any limit to their perversity. They are from their very birth, habituated to doing acts, which cause harm to others and destroy their lives. They look down upon the world and proclaim their exploits from their house-tops. They spread the net of their desires in all directions and go on increasing their misdeeds with great excitement, in the same way as a stray cow goes on grazing wherever it likes. |
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