Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-7
Wisdom and Knowledge
14. This Divine Maya, consisting of gunas is difficult to cross. Those who take refuge in Me alone, pass beyond this Maya. 15. Not in Me do the evil-doing, deluded and vile men take refuge; (for) deprived of wisdom by Maya they adopt demoniacal ways. Now, O Arjuna, how can one cross this Maya of mine, consisting of Mahat etc. and become one with me? This river of Maya had its origin on the precipice of the mountain of Brahman, which desired to become many and produced tiny bubbles of fine elements. This river has been rushing with great speed between the steep banks of action and renunciation (66-70). And when the clouds in the form of the three qualities send heavy rains, they sweep away in the flood of delusion the town in the form of self-control and restraint of the senses. This river is full of the whirlpools of hatred and meanders with bends of malice, while there bask in it, big fish in the form of heedlessness. The river has many turnings of worldly existence, in which it becomes flooded with action and inaction, and dry leaves and other rubbish in the form of pleasure and pain keep floating on its water. Waves of passion toss against the form of beings, get accumulated there. From the swift currents of ego-sense, arise bubbles of pride of knowledge, wealth and power which burst into waves of sense-objects (71-75). |
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