Gyaneshwari 718

Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar

Chapter-18 Release Can the disc of the sun contain its light? Can the butter churned out of curds and separated from it again merge into the butter-milk (411-415)? Can the latent fire once released from the fire-wood re-enter it and remain latent in it again? How can the sun who has come out of the womb of night ever cognize the night? In the same way, how can a person, in whom the knowable object and the knower have become one, entertain the egoistic feeling that he is the body? As the sky pervades wherever one goes, the Self also pervades all. So whatever work one does is his own Self. In what way then can he think himself to be the agent of any action (416-420)? Just as there is no space apart from the sky, or the sea has no flow apart from it or the Pole star has no moon, similar is the state of the person (who has realised the Self). In the same way, a person, who has got rid of his egoistic feeling that he is the doer, continues to work so long as he is in the body. Even though the wind has ceased to flow, the (foliage of) tree continues to flutter for some time.