Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
22. That which is confined to one object, as though it were all and is causeless and trifling and lacking in truth and meaning, that (knowledge) is said to arise from tamas. That knowledge is tamasic, which stripped of all clothes in the form of ordinances, roams about naked, and on which the Vedas have turned their back. Other shastras too, which follow the path of the Vedas, have banished it to the mountain in the form of non-Aryan religion, after condemning it (546-550). O Arjuna, as that knowledge is seized by the demoness of tamas, it roams about like a mad person. That knowledge does not shrink from any kind of physical contact and does not consider any object as prohibited, like a stray dog left in a deserted place, which consumes everything, leaving only a thing which cannot be held in it’s mouth or which would burn it’s mouth. Just as a mouse does not know whether the gold stolen by it is pure or alloyed, or a meat-eater does not care whether the meat is red or white, or a forest conflagration does not discriminate between good or bad trees, or the housefly does not bother whether the body on which it lands, is dead or alive (551-555), or the crow does not stop to think whether the food before it is served or vomited, or whether it is fresh or rotten. So this knowledge, infatuated with sensual pleasures, does not know how to perform actions, which are prescribed and avoid actions which are prohibited. Whatever sense-object it sees, it takes it up for enjoyment and if it happens to be a woman or riches, it presents that object to the generative organ or the stomach. |
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