Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
16. That being so, he who sees the absolute Self as the agent through the lack of knowledge - such a perverse person sees not (truly). In this way, O celebrated Arjuna, there are five instrumental causes for the action, resulting from five causes. When the Self becomes associated with them, he becomes involved in that action. Just as the sun without taking any form reveals the forms, so the Self also reveals the action, without taking its form. O great warrior, just as without becoming either the mirror or the reflection, one sees both by looking into the mirror, or the sun makes day and night without being either, so the Self reveals action without being its agent (376-380). But when a person who is deluded by the egoistic feeling identifies himself with the body and becomes attached to it, he remains in total darkness as of midnight, in regard to the Self. He who does not recognise that Self, God and the Supreme Self exist beyond the body, is firmly convinced that the Self is the doer of action; nay, he thinks that he as body is the agent of actions. He has never even heard that he is the Self who is beyond the actions and only their witness. What is strange, therefore, is that he regards the limitless Self as limited by his body. Does not the owl close his eyes during the day and make it night (381-385)? If a person has not seen the real sun, will he not consider its reflection in water as the sun? |
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