Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
As he proceeds along, discrimination marches ahead of him, bearing the scepter in its hand and clears the crowd in the form of manifest things of the world. Then the yogic stages, as it were, come forward to wave five tiny lamps placed on a platter to felicitate him (1666-1070). The miraculous powers come there, to bathe him with a shower of flowers. With the approach of self-government, in the form of union with Supreme Brahman, he feels as if all the three worlds are full of bliss. In this state, O Dhananjaya, there remains none, whom he can call as his friend or as his enemy. Even if he calls one on a rare occasion as his friend, even then he entertains no idea of duality; he has become so identified with all people. He has pervaded the whole universe by his majesty, with the result, that no attachment of the form ‘This is mine’ affects him; for he has given up attachment already (1071-1075). Thus having conquered all his enemies, he regards the whole universe as a non-entity and then the horse in the form of his yogic practice on which he was riding, becomes steady. Then he loosens for a moment his impregnable armour of non-attachment and he slackens his hand, as nothing remains for the sword in the form of meditation to slash. Just as the medicine, after serving its purpose, becomes superfluous, similar is his state. Just as walking comes to a halt, after reaching the destination, so his yogic practice stops, after the attainment of Brahman (1076-1080).
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