Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
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72. Have you listened to this, O Partha, with one-pointed mind? Has your delusion due to ignorance been destroyed, O winner of wealth? Tell me, O Arjuna, have you imbibed all the doctrines of the Gita (1536-1540)? Whatever knowledge I poured into your ears, has it sunk in your mind? Or has some of it got scattered in the way or been ignored by you, through disrespect? If whatever I have told you has entered your heart, then give a straight and ready answer to my question. Have you now got rid of the infatuation, which arose in your mind due to ignorance? Do you still think that you will undertake some action or abstain from it at your sweet will (1541-1545)? The Lord asked Arjuna this question, in order to prevent him from being dissolved in the bliss of Brahman and brought him back to the sense of distinctness. The Lord thought that if Arjuna became attuned to Brahman, he would not fulfill the object, which he has in view and so he did not allow him to transgress the boundary of his separate personality. Otherwise did he not, the omniscient one, know his own doing? But by asking him this question, the Lord restored his consciousness of the body and made him confirm whether he had attained perfection or not. Then just as the moon, rising from the Milky Sea, illumines the sky, remaining therein without separating from the sea (1546-1550), Arjuna had reached the frontier in which on the one hand he was getting forgetful of his Brahmic state, but on the other was seeing Brahman all around him, in which on the one side the world was fast vanishing, while on the other his Brahmic state was abating. Then he became forgetful of his Brahmic state and came back to the consciousness of his body, in the form ‘I am Arjuna’. Then with trembling hands, he soothed the horripilation on his body and wiped the sweat dry. Then he supported his body, which was swaying on account of his heightened breathing and after steadying the movement of his body, he held back the joyful tears trickling down his eyes (1551-1560). Then he suppressed the emotions crowding in his heart, which produced a choking sensation in his throat and further recovering his faltering speech, he steadied his breath. |
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