Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-5
Renunciation
8. The yogi who knows the truth should think, ‘I do nothing at all’, when he sees, hears, touches, smells, eats, walks, sleeps or breathes, 9. Speaks, releases, grasps, opens and closes his eyes, bearing in mind that the gunas (senses) act on the gunas (their objects). O Partha, he who does not remember even that he has a body, how would he possess the egoistic feeling of being the agent? Thus even when the yogi has not discarded the body, all the characteristics of the formless God become manifest in him. But like all ordinary people, he seems engaged in all activities (36- 40). He sees with his eyes, hears with his ears, but surprisingly he remains unattached to what he sees and hears. He feels the touch, smells with his nose and talks on occasions. He eats food, gives up whatever he does not want, and sleeps in comfort at the appropriate time. He seems to walk according to his sweet will and goes on performing all actions as required. Arjuna, why need I tell you each and everything? He breathes in and out and shuts and opens his eyes and so on (41-45). Though he performs these actions, he is not the agent due to self-knowledge. So long as he was asleep on the bed of ignorance, he was deluded by happy dreams; but since then with the dawn of knowledge, he is awakened to his true Self. |
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