Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
50. Learn from Me in brief, O Arjuna, how after winning perfection, one attains to Brahman, which is the highest state of wisdom. When the sun rises, light envelops darkness from all sides. When camphor comes into contact with lamp, it becomes a lamp (981-985). When a granule of salt is dropped in water, it becomes water. When a person wakes up from sleep, his sleep along with dream ends and he resumes his conscious state. So if he hears the instruction of the Master through good fortune, his mind sheds the notion of duality and rests in the nature of Self. Then can anyone say, that there remains any action to be performed by him? Is there anything like coming and going possible in the case of the all-pervading sky? Without doubt, there remains nothing for him to do. But in the case of a particular seeker it so happens (986-990), that he does not become one with Brahman immediately after hearing the words of the preceptor. It may be that he has kindled the fire, in the form of the performance of his prescribed actions, by feeding it with the firewood in the form of innovated and prohibited actions and burnt the rajas and tamas qualities. Then he may have brought under his control, like a servant, his craving for sons, wealth and heaven. He may have cleansed in the holy waters of sense-restraint, his wayward senses defiled by the enjoyment of sense-objects (991-995). |
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