Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-6
Dhyanayoga
6. The mind is a friend to him who has controlled it by himself, but for one who has not mastered his mind, (this) very mind becomes hostile like a foe. When a person renounces his ego through reflection, he becomes the existent Brahman and attains the supreme good. But he who regards the decked body as the Self becomes his own enemy like the silkworm. This is just like a luckless person, who feeling like one blind shuts his eyes, when prosperity is at the corner, or like a person who, out of delusion, looks upon himself to be lost and remains under this mistaken fantasy all the time. Otherwise the embodied self is Brahman itself, but he does not realize this truth. Do you think that one can really die of wounds inflicted in a dream (71-75)? It is like the parrot that sits on a pipe hung from a tree, and when it starts moving fast, he does not fly away but grips it out of fear. It then aimlessly turns its neck round, draws in its legs close to the heart and remains holding the pipe firmly in its beak. It falls into the trap under the mistaken notion that it is bound and its legs, although free, get entangled more and more in the pipe. Even if it were cut in the middle, it would not let go the pipe. When it is caught like this needlessly, can one say that somebody has bound it to the pipe? Likewise, he who increases his desires becomes his own enemy. Therefore, O friends, he alone is enlightened who does not falsely regard himself as bound (76-80). |
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