Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-17
Three Kinds of Faith
You should, therefore, take recourse to the sattva quality by abandoning the other two and accomplish your object. So perform all your actions including sacrificial rites, with the help of sattva quality and attain to your pristine nature. If the sun is there to show you, is there anything which you cannot see? In the same way, if there is sattva quality to guide you, how will your actions not yield the fruit? It is true that the sattva quality does possess this power, and yet that which conduces to liberation (316-320) is something else. When one secures the aid of this thing, one steps into the domain of deliverance. Even if one has pure gold of the highest quality (fifteen annas in a rupee), it serves as currency, only if it bears the royal insignia. There may be pure, cool and fragrant water, which gives pleasure; but it becomes holy when it is connected with a holy stream. However big a stream might be, it gains access to the sea, only if it joins a big river. In the same way, that which removes the obstacles, in the way of one, seeking deliverance with the help of sattvic actions, is entirely different (321-325). After hearing this, Arjuna could not contain his eagerness within himself and said, ‘O Lord, kindly tell me, what it is’. Then the merciful Lord said, ‘I shall now tell you how a sattvic person secures this gem, in the form of emancipation’. |
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