Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
|
|
Chapter-18
Release
Now even though the sight is the same, it appears split like a fly-whisker on account of the eye-lashes. The lamp inside the house is one, but it appears more than one when seen through the interstices of a lattice. The same actor appears to be different, when he acts the nine different sentiments. In the same way, though the intellect is one, yet it displays itself in different forms through the different senses (326-330). The different organs of the body, therefore, constitute the third cause of action. Water flows separately towards the East and the West and even though it is one and the same, it appears as big or small rivers. In the same way the motive power of the wind is constant, but it appears different in different regions of the body. When it operates through the faculty of speech, we call it ‘talking’. When it operates through the hands, we say that it functions as ‘give and take’. When it operates through the feet, it is known as ‘motion’ and when it operates through the lower outlets, it throws out urine and excreta (331-335). When it operates between the regions of the navel to the heart and displays the word Om, it is known as prana. When it moves upwards, it takes the name of udana. When it goes, out through the lower outlet (anus), it is known as apana and when it pervades the entire body, it is called vyana. When it distributes the juice of the digested food in all parts of the body and pervades all the joints of the body, it is known as samana (336-340). |
 |
