Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
Sage Vyasa made it easy for others to grasp the meaning of the private conversation, which took place between Shri Krishna and Arjuna. If a fond mother sits down to feed its child, she serves him food in small morsels or a clever fellow makes a fan in order to utilise the wind. In the same way, through the medium of the Anushtubh metre, it has been made easy for the women, shudras etc. to grasp the knowledge of the Self, which it is difficult to express in words. If the pearls had not been formed by the raindrops falling into the shells under the fifteenth lunar asterism (Swati), how could the beautiful maidens bedeck themselves with them (1696-1700)? How could we have known the musical notes, if they did not come out of the musical instruments? If there were no flowers, how could anyone have smelled their fragrance? If the dainties were not so sweet, how could the tongue know their flavour? Were there no mirror, how could the eyes see their own form? How could the disciple worship the preceptor, if he did not appear in a manifest form? In the same way, if this infinite Brahman had not been encompassed within seven hundred verses, who could have comprehended it? The cloud, draining up water from the sea, sends showers of rain and so the whole world looks to them with hope. For who could look to the sea, which is unlimited and which does not increase or diminish (1701-1705)? Had not sage Vyasa written these beautiful verses, who could have heard or read this theme, which transcends speech? |
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