Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
61. The Lord abides, O Arjuna, in the hearts of all beings, spinning them round by his Divine Power. The sun in the form of the Supreme Spirit, with his thousand rays, rises in the great sky in the form of hearts of all beings. He illumines the three states of wakefulness, the dream and deep sleep and inspires the wayfarers, in the form of embodied Selves, with false knowledge (1296-1300). He makes the lotuses in the form of sense-objects blossom, in the lake of knowable objects and feeds them to the bees, in the form of the beings with six feet consisting of the five senses and the mind. This metaphor apart, God abides in the hearts of all beings, taking the form of egoism. He pulls the strings from behind the curtain of Maya and makes the puppets in the form of eighty-four lakhs of species, dance. He invests all beings, from god Brahma to the worm, with body-forms, according to their deserts. Whatever being is invested with a body appropriate to it, rides the body with the notion ‘I am the body’ (1301-1305). Just as the thread should get entangled in the thread, or a blade of grass should bind another, or a child should try to catch hold of its reflection in water, so the Self adopts that bodyform, though separate from him, with the notion of identity with it. In this way, by mounting the beings on the mechanism of the body, God pulls the strings, in accordance with their past actions. Then the being begins to move, by virtue of the string, which is exclusively earmarked for him, according to his past deeds.
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