Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
16. Bewildered by many such fancies, caught in the web of delusion and addicted to sensual enjoyments, they fall into foul hell. Just as a patient raves at random in delirious fever, so these demoniacal men babble their fancies. The dust in the form of their ignorance rises high and become the whirlwind in the form of hope, which keeps on soaring in the sky in the form of desires (361-365). Just as clouds appear in the sky one after another, in the month of Ashadha (July) or the waves form on the sea continuously, so their desires grow for constant sensuous enjoyments. Then their designs grow and spread like a creeper, but they are shattered like flowers when they are snatched from the thorny bushes or like an earthen pot dashed against a rock. As the intensity of darkness increases with the advancing night, infatuation grows in their minds, giving rise to a passion for sensual pleasures, which breeds sinful acts (366-370). When the sin derives strength and becomes crowded, then they suffer hellish life even in this world. Therefore, O talented Arjuna, harbouring such wicked desires in their minds, these demoniacal men come to dwell (after death) in those places, where there are trees with sharp-edged leaves like swords, where there are mountains of live coals of khadira trees (agacia catachus), where seas of boiling oil rush forth, where there are a series of agonising tortures devised by the god of death; into such a hell they fall. Although born in this world but destined to fall into hell, they too perform sacrifices assiduously in an infatuated state (371-375). But, O Arjuna, even though such prescribed sacrificial rites are in order and should be performed as enjoined, they prove fruitless as they are performed with ostentation as in a dramatic performance. This is like a whore who lives under the protection of her lover and remains contented, pretending to be a loyal wife. |
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