Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
He then believes that the sun exists when there is water in the puddle, the sun ceases to exist when the puddle is dried up and that the sun has tremor when the water in the puddle is stirred by the wind. So long as the person who is asleep does not wake up, he is bound to feel as real what he sees in his dream. Is there any wonder that a person who has no knowledge of a rope mistakes it for a serpent and becomes frightened? The moon will appear yellow to a jaundiced eye, and who else but a deer is deceived by the mirage? He who keeps away from the scriptures and the Guru (literally, does not allow even the breeze of the mention of their name to touch his body), he lives in a fool’s paradise (386-390). Just as the jackals impute the motion of the clouds to the moon and charge the moon with the motion, a person keeps the Self confined in the net of the body, in the mistaken belief that the body is the Self. Under this false impression, he shuts himself up in the prison of the body with the strong bonds of actions. |
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