Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-5
Renunciation
If you behold, O Arjuna, these sense-objects dispassionately, they look fat like sufferers from jaundice. Know, therefore, that whatever seems like sensual pleasure is pain from beginning to end; but the ignorant man cannot refrain from it (116-120). As they do not know this secret, they cannot but take to them. Tell me, do the insects in pus and mud feel nausea for them? They find pleasure in that pain. They are like frogs in the muck of sense-objects and fish in the (muddy) water of sense enjoyments; how then can they leave it? If all beings were to regard sense-objects with dispassion, will not births fraught with pain be without purpose? Who will then tread without rest on the paths leading to the plight of dwelling in the womb or the travails of births and deaths? Where will the great imperfections dwell, if every one gave up desire of sense-objects? And then will not the very term, worldly existence, become redundant (121-125)? Therefore since they take the pain proceeding from sense enjoyment as pleasure, they make this ignorance, which is wholly false, seem true. Reflection shows that these sense-objects are wholly bad; do not, therefore, make the mistake of running after them. Men of dispassion avoid them like poison, and being desireless they do not like pain in the form of sensuous pleasure. |
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