Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
As the sun sheds his light on the darkness, there remains no darkness on which to shed light; in the same way, the seeing agent does not remain separate from Me, to see the object. This state, which is not the result of seeing or not seeing, is My real vision. O Arjuna, he retains this vision, when he comes across any visible object and enjoys this state, which transcends the seeing agent and the object to be seen. As the sky does not slip, being allpersvasive, so he remains unshaken, being merged with the Self (1161-1165). As water fills the whole earth at the time of deluge and so does not flow, so the Self who is filled with the Supreme Self, remains still. How can the feet go in advance of themselves, how can the fire burn itself and how can water bathe in itself? Since I am all-pervasive, all movements (of the devotee who is merged in Myself) stop and this absence of movement, becomes his pilgrimage to My non-dual state. However swiftly the wave moves on water, it cannot leave the water and encroach upon the land. The place which it leaves and the place it goes to, its movement and the means of movement, are nothing but water (1166-1170); wherever the wave moves it is all water, and so the oneness of the wave with water, remains undisturbed. So when he starts from the state of oneness with Me and again returns to Me, then this movement of his, constitutes his pilgrimage and he becomes My pilgrim. If he performs any action according to his disposition, I myself go to meet him under the pretext of that action. In this state, O Arjuna, the distinction between the deed and the doer disappears, and seeing Me in himself, he becomes one with Me. If a mirror sees into another mirror, it is no seeing at all; or if gold is covered with gold, it is not covered at all (1171-1175);
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