Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
How can a shadow exist without a figure? If there is no mirror, where will the face get reflected? How can one dream after the sleep is over and will not all the talk whether the dream is true or false become redundant (261-265)? With the relinquishment of the fruit of actions, ignorance ceases and then who can receive or dispense the fruits of actions? Then all talk about actions and their fruits ceases, in the case of a relinquisher. But so long as ignorance exists in the mind, so long as the soul undertakes good or bad actions with the egoistic feeling that he is the doer, and so long as this vision continues to see distinctions among living beings, the notion of duality, O intelligent Arjuna, exists between the Self and the action. Just as there is, distinctness between the East and the West or between the sky and the clouds, the sun and the mirage, the earth and the wind (266-270), or between the river and the rock in it, between the water and the moss which grows on it, or between the lamp and the soot (literally, although both are connected, can we call the soot lamp?), or between the moon and its spots, or between the vision and the eyes, or between the way and the wayfarer, or between the current and the water which flows in it or the mirror and one who looks in it, so is the action distinct from the Self. But this will happen only if ignorance allows them to be seen as distinct (271-275). The lotus creeper blossoms and suggests thereby that the sun has risen and makes the bees enjoy the honey of its flowers; the same way, the embodied Self performs actions for other reasons, which are five in number and I shall describe them now. |
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