Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
|
|
Chapter-7
Wisdom and Knowledge
19. At the end of many birth the man of wisdom attains to Me, (knowing that) Vasudeva is All; such a great soul is rare to find. He (a man of wisdom) avoids the difficult situations of desire and anger in the thickets of sensuous pleasures and ascending the mountain of good intentions, takes, O valiant Arjuna, in the company of holy men, the royal road of moral conduct, leaving the by-path of evil actions. He traverses the way of devotion without wearing the shoes in the form of desire for the fruit of action during many births. Who will then keep an account of the methods for doing it? In this way, when after assuming many bodies he has traveled through the night of ignorance, his karma is destroyed ushering in the dawn of knowledge (126-130). Then with the grace of his Guru, he enjoys the mild rays of the sun of knowledge, and the glorious treasure of the unity of all things comes into his vision. Then wherever he casts his eyes, he sees Me alone, and even if he sits quietly, he sees nothing else but Me. Just as the pot sunk in water has water both within and without, so he lives in Me and I abide both inside and outside of him. His state cannot be described in words, so what I have said is enough. The treasure house of knowledge becomes open to him and wherever he goes, he thinks that he has become the whole world (131-135). He has the faith born of experience that the world is the manifestation of God and so he is the great devotee and jnani as well. O Arjuna, he in whose experience this whole world, both animate and inanimate is contained, is a great soul, who is difficult to come across. then, O Arjuna, there are those who, blinded by the darkness born of attachment to the fruits of actions, worship Me with a selfish motive.
|
 |
