Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
51. Endowed with pure intellect, controlling the Self with firmness and having abandoned the senseobjects such as sound and casting away passion and hatred, He follows the path indicated by the teacher and reaching the bank of holy waters in the form of discrimination, he washes off the impurity of his intellect. Just as the moonlight released by the demon Rahu (i.e. after the eclipse is over) embraces the moon, so his intellect, after being purified, becomes attracted to the Self. Just as a woman from a good family leaves the homes of her parents and parents-in-law and follows her husband, so his intellect, discarding the notion of dualism, becomes absorbed in the meditation of the Self. He has eliminated the five sense-objects, which he had prized so long in the life, of acquiring the desired knowledge, in the same way as the withdrawal of the rays by the sun (at sunset) destroys the mirage (1011-1015). Just as one, who has taken food unknowingly, in the house of a low-caste person is forced to vomit it, so he has banished sensuous desires from the senses. Then, after withdrawing the senses from the sense-objects, he brings them to the bank of the Ganga, in the form of the mind and washes them clean through atonement. Then, after purifying the senses with sattvic fortitude, he keeps them engaged in the practice of Yoga. When he is required to experience the fruits of his past deeds, good or bad, he does not grieve over his sufferings or long for enjoyments (1016-1020). Thus, he does not feel joy or grief at good or bad happenings and resorts to a cave or recess on a mountain. |
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