Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
If two mirrors are placed before each other, how can we say which saw which? Or if two lamps are kept one in front of the other, who can say which borrowed whose light? If another sun rises in the sky, who can say which one gives light and which one is lit? When we think about it, all thought comes to a standstill; both of them had become so engrossed in the conversation. If salt is placed between two currents of water to keep them separate, the salt too becomes water in no time (1596-1600). I was also reduced to the same state, when I was thinking of the conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. As Sanjaya was talking like this, he was so overcome by the sattvic emotions, that he lost consciousness of being Sanjaya. He began to have horripilation on his body, his limbs had wrinkles, his body became still and was covered with sweat and tremour. He enjoyed the bliss of the non-dual state and his eyes shed copious tears of joy – nay, they were not tears, but the overflow of his heart. He could not contain this joy within his heart, his throat became choked, his speech became stifled through suffocation (1601-1605). In short, these eight sattvic emotions made Sanjaya speechless and he became, as it were, the meeting-place of bliss arising from their conversation. That bliss was of such a nature, that it claimed his mind and made him conscious of himself. |
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