Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
If you have faith in the truthful utterance of sage Vyasa, then what I am saying is inevitable. Where there is the Lord of Goddess Lakshmi and Arjuna the master devotee, there abides happiness, as also gain of all that is auspicious. Should this speech of mine prove to be untrue, then I shall forgo my claim to be ‘disciple of sage Vyasa’, so proclaimed Sanjaya, raising his arms. In this way, Sanjaya brought the gist of the whole Bharata in one verse and delivered it into the hands of Dhritarashtra, the King of Kurus. Even though fire has unlimited power to burn, it is utilised to kindle the end of a cotton wick to dispel the darkness caused by sunset (1656-1660). In the same way, although the Vedic knowledge is infinite; it is contained in one lakh and twenty-five thousand verses of the Mahabharata, and the quintessence of the Mahabharata is contained in the seven hundred verses of the Gita. The last verse in this Gita, is the final utterance of Sanjaya, the disciple of Vyasa. Whoever holds fast to this verse in his heart will have conquered ignorance, root and branch. These seven hundred verses are the foot-steps of the Gita or they are, as it were, the showers of nectar, which have come down from the sky. I rather feel that these verses are the pillars of the court of the king in the form of Self (1661-1665). |
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