Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
I shall, therefore, tell you what I had intended, but this would mean that I shall place you under an additional debt of affection.” Then Arjuna replied, ‘O Lord, have you completely forgotten what you said before? You said that in order to preserve this affection, you are maintaining the distinction between you and me.” Then Lord Krishna said: Be it so, now hear attentively what I am going to say. O Arjuna, it is true that all actions originate from Five causes without the intervention of knowledge of the Self. These five causes combine to give shape to the action. The same causes also provide the reasons for the action (301-305). But there the Self remains neutral and is neither the material nor the instrumental cause of action and does not help in the successful implementation of action. Just as the sky is unattached to either night or day, so the good or bad deeds happen to the unattached Self. When water, heat and vapour combine, they produce the clouds; yet the sky knows nothing about it. The boat is fashioned out of wooden planks and the boatman steers it on the water, which is only a witness there. When a lump of clay is placed on the wheel and the wheel is turned round and round with a stick, it becomes a pot (306-310). Here it is the potter’s skill which causes it, and the earth does nothing except giving support to the wheel. Just consider all this. All the activities of the world are carried on, in the light of the sun, but is the sun concerned with any of them? So all these Five causes come together to grow the creeper in the form of actions; but the Self remains aloof from them. I shall now describe these Five causes, each one separately, in the same way as pearls should be picked up and weighed separately. |
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