Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
53. Forsaking egoism, strength, arrogance, desire, anger and possessions, free from the sense of ‘Me’ and ‘Mine’, and serene, one becomes fit for the state of Brahman. He then destroys all the faults which are hostile to him. The foremost among them, is egoism (1046-1050), which does not release him even after death. Nor does it let him live peacefully, but keeps him bound in the stocks of bones and makes him miserable. He raises to the ground the citadel in the form of the body, which is the abode of this egoism. He also destroys his second enemy, which is strength. This enemy waxes strong, at the very mention of senseobjects and blots out the whole world. It is the narrow pond of poison, in the form of senseobjects, as also the chief among the faults. But even this enemy cannot bear the strokes of the sword, in the form of meditation. Then he destroys the enemy, arrogance, which under the pretext of giving him happiness, entices him in agreeable sense-objects (1051-1055). This third enemy (arrogance) deludes him and makes him miss the path of virtue and enter the jungle, in the form of unrighteousness, only to fall into the jaws of a tiger, in the form of hell. He destroys this enemy arrogance, which after inspiring trust in it, ruins a person. He then destroys the enemy ‘desire’, which makes even the ascetics tremble, begets the vicious fault of wrath and remains famished, the more it is fed. With the destruction of desire, wrath is automatically destroyed. Just as when the tree is uprooted its branches get destroyed, so the eradication of desire brings about the destruction of wrath (1056-1060). |
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