Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
He says to himself, I am lucky to have such a good thing as the human body; then why should I tax it with work (186-190)? If I have to work to gain happiness, I would much rather do without it. Why not enjoy the pleasures which are already within my grasp? Such relinquishment, O Arjuna, on the ground of physical pain, is rajas-dominated relinquishment. This is also abandonment of work, but it does not bear the fruit of relinquishment. If boiling ghee falls into fire, it does not become an oblation. If a person is drowned, it does not amount to voluntary death by yogic self-immersion, but is an accidental death. If one, therefore, gives up his prescribed duties because he is attached to physical comforts, he does not gain the fruit of relinquishment (191-195). Just as all the stars vanish in the morning light, all activity, along with its cause, as well as ignorance, ceases with the dawn of knowledge and then this relinquishment of actions bears fruit in the form of liberation. The abandonment of action through ignorance, does not lead to emancipation and so being rajas-dominated, it is not true relinquishment. Now I shall tell you as the occasion demands, what kind of relinquishment will bring emancipation to you. |
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