Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-4
Sankhyayoga
25. Some yogis worship with sacrifice the deities alone; others sacrifice by offering oblations in the fire of Brahman. He remains day and night engrossed in worship, offering his ignorance, along with his mind, in the fire of Guru’s instruction. In this way, when one offers sacrifice in the fire of Yoga, it is called daivyajna, through which one seeks spiritual bliss. He who is fully convinced that his body is maintained by his former karma, and does not care to nourish it, he should be known as a great yogi (121-125). Now listen, I shall describe to you one who offers sacrifice in the fire of Brahman by means of sacrifice. 26. Some sacrifice senses of hearing etc. in the fire of self-restraint; others sacrifice in the fires of the senses their objects such as sound. Now the sacrificer in the fire of self-restraint, sacrifices the pure sense organs through the formulae of body, speech and mind. Another, when dispassion dawns on him, kindles in the temple of self-restraint, the fire of sense organs. When this fire burns the faggots of passion in the flames of dispassion, then the smoke of desire leaves the five sacrificial pits (i.e. the organs of sense). And then he offers skillfully all the five sense-objects as oblations, as enjoined by the scriptures, in the fire of the sense organs (126-130). |
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