Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-7
Wisdom and Knowledge
27. Confused by the pairs that spring from desire and hatred, all creatures in creation walk in delusion, O Bharata, source of the foes. A daughter named desire was born out of this love. When she came of age, she mated with hatred. She gave birth to a son, by name delusion, in the form of pleasure and pain, and he was brought up by his grandfather, egoism. He was hostile to fortitude and restraint of the senses and was nourished on the milk of hope. Then, O Arjuna, he became infatuated by the wine of discontent and lived happily with excitement in a room of sensuous pleasure. He spread thorns of doubt in the way of pure devotion and laid out by-paths of evil deeds (166-170). Because of this, all creatures which were deluded and caught in the jungle of worldly existence were oppressed by the onslaught of misery. 28. But as for virtuous men whose sins have come to an end, they, free from the delusive pairs of opposites, worship Me with steadfast vows. But virtuous men who see these blunt thorns of doubts are not deterred by the delusion of mind. They crush these thorns of doubt by following the steps of one-pointed devotion and avoid the forest of great sin. Then they come close to Me, with the speedy gait of virtue, and so escape from the clutches of waylayers in the form of desire and anger. |
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