Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
If fire, O Arjuna, catches fire, will it get burnt or will a weapon pierce itself? So he who does not consider his action different from himself, how can he be polluted by it? Since he has become action, agent and the instrument, all these three himself, he is not bound by the actions performed by his body etc. Because it is only the embodied Self, who imagining himself to be the agent, works skillfully in the mine of the body etc. with the implements of the ten senses. He raises in a moment, mansions of works, after fixing the boundaries of justice and injustice (451-455). But the Self plays no role in this great work. And if you say that he starts the work, that too is not the case. The Self is a mere witness and his essential nature, is knowledge itself. So how do you think that he gives his approval to the desire for activity? The activity, which holds the people in its grip, does not affect the Self. Therefore, he who had become one with the Self, does not become a prisoner of actions. But the picture of false knowledge is painted on the canvas of ignorance, as a result of the famous three-fold cause (456-460). For this triad of knower, knowledge and the object of knowledge is the seed of and without doubt, the impulse to action. O winner of wealth, I shall now explain to you, in clear terms, the different forms of this triad. |
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