Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
18. Given to egoism, strength, arrogance, passion and wrath, these malicious persons cavil at Me in their own and others’ bodies. Then beating big kettle-drums and unfurling flags, they show themselves off as initiated sacrifices, but all this is in vain. These mean persons become self-conceited by this false greatness. As darkness given a coating of lamp-black becomes more dark (386-390), so their folly and arrogance increase and their egotism and thoughtlessness become doubled. Then they increase their power still more, so that no one should take anybody else’s name. Thus, when their egotism increases, the sea of their arrogance crosses its limits. When their arrogance becomes exuberant, their passion gets excited and in its heat, the fire of wrath is kindled. Then just as a big store of oil and ghee catches a blazing fire in hot season, and it becomes fanned by a strong wind (391-195), so their egotism becomes strong and their arrogance becomes shrouded in passion and wrath. When these two (egotism and arrogance) combine, will they then hesitate to cause injury to others according to their whims? O archer, they offer in sacrifices their own blood and flesh, in order to secure success in black magic. When they torture their body in this way, I, dwelling in their body also suffer. And when they cause harm to others through black magic, they cause suffering to Me, who dwell in their bodies as self (396-400). If any person escapes from the clutches of this black magic, they belabour them with their sly gossip. These demoniacal persons hurl sharp and poisoned arrows of slander, at chaste women, saints, men of charitable disposition, great ascetics and monks, or devotees and magnanimous souls, who are My favourite places of abode, which have become holy, by the performance of scriptural rites. |
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