Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
When the desire is stilled, the stirring of anger also comes to an end. Just as a person in authority makes the offender carry the stock (in which his ankles are to be bound) on his head, so his enemy by name ‘possession’ rides on his head, (corrupts his mind), makes him addicted to vices and compels him to carry the stick of attachment. Because of ‘possession’, even a detached ascetic becomes entangled in the snares in the form of ‘this is my disciple’, ‘this is my book’, ‘this is my hermitage’. That possession, which was shaken off after leaving the family, appears in the form of sylvan things in the forest and pursues even a nude ascetic (1061-1065). By knocking off the bottom of this invincible enemy named ‘possession’, he experiences the joy of victory, over worldly life. Then all the means of knowledge, such as absence of pride and others come to pay homage to him, like princes in the country of liberation. They offer him tribute, in the form of mastery over true knowledge and remain as his retinue. When he proceeds along the highway of activity, young ladies in the form of wakefulness dream and deep sleep wave around him salt and mustard, in the form of pleasure. |
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