Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-3
Karmayoga
They have stripped chaste peace, adorned the whore Maya and have ruined bands of good men through her. They have destroyed the might of discriminating knowledge, peeled the hide of dispassion and twisted the neck of tranquility. They have cut down the forest of contentment, pulled down the fortress of fortitude and uprooted and thrown away the saplings of joy. They have plucked out the shoots of knowledge, erased the alphabet of happiness, and kindled the three kinds of miseries in the heart of man. They have come into being with the body and are bound to the body and so they cannot be found even by god Brahma (251255). They reside close to the intellect and live in the company of knowledge; and so they spread like an uncontrollable epidemic. They drown a person without water, burn him without fire, and devour him without even saying a word. They strike a person without a weapon, tie him up without a rope and laying a wager ruin the wise. They sink a person without mire, bind him without fetters, and as they dwell within, they are not like anything that we know. 38. As fire is enveloped by smoke, as mirror is covered with dust, as the embryo is encased in the womb, so is (knowledge) obscured by it. Even as a serpent seeks the root of a sandal tree and encircles it, or the womb encloses the foetus (256-260), or as the sun becomes obscure without his light, or as there is no fire without smoke or a mirror without dirt, so we have not seen knowledge singly without this desire, just as the seed is born covered with husk, |
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