Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-2
Sankhya and Yoga
64. But if a self-possessed person enjoys the sense-objects without desire and hatred, keeping his senses under control, he attains to serenity. Therefore you should expel all thoughts of sense-objects from your mind, so that passion and hatred are stamped out; then even if the senses indulge in sense-objects, they would cause no harm. Even as the sun touching the world with his rays, does not become tainted by that contact, so a person remains indifferent to the sense-objects, when he is free from desire and anger and engrossed in the bliss of the Self. When he comes to perceive that the sense-objects are not different from him, how can they bring harm to him (331-335)? If water can drown itself or fire can burn itself, then a perfected person can become overwhelmed by sense-contacts. In this way, if a person becomes completely absorbed in Self, then know without doubt that his wisdom has become steady. 65. And from serenity results cessation of all suffering. For in a person with a serene mind wisdom becomes firmly set. Listen, when the mind remains serene without break, all the sorrows of the world do not enter it. Even as hunger and thirst do not affect a person who has a spring of nectar in his belly, how can sorrow affect him whose mind is tranquil? His understanding remains of itself absorbed in the supreme Self (336-340). Just as the flame of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place, so the wisdom of a yogi remains steady in the Self.
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