Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-7
Wisdom and Knowledge
13. This whole world deluded by these three conditions of gunas, does not recognize Me, who am imperishable and beyond the three gunas. But Just as the moss begot from water covers it up, or the clouds cover up the sky (56-60), or the unreal dream seems real under the sway of sleep and makes one forget its unreality, or the cataract which is formed from water in the eye affects one’s sight, in the same manner this Maya, consisting of the three gunas, which is my reflection and shadow, acts as a veil hiding My true nature. Therefore, the beings created by Me do not know Me and are not in Me, just as pearls produced from water do not get dissolved in water. The pot made out of clay mixes into it easily, but does not do so when baked in fire (61-65); so all the creatures are truly My limbs and have come into being through the play of My Maya. So though they belong to Me, they are not the Self and do not recognize Me and have become blinded by sense-objects and deluded by the notions of ‘I’ and ‘Mine’. |
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