Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-12
Bhaktiyoga
18. He who is alike to friend and foe, as also in honour and dishonour, the same in heat and cold, in happiness and sorrow, free from attachment, O Arjuna, he does not have even a trace of hostile feeling and so treats equally both a friend and an enemy. Just as a lamp, does not think of giving light only to the inmates of the house and withhold it from strangers, or a tree gives shade without distinction, to one who has planted it or one who has come to cut it, or sugarcane is not sweet to one who grows it or bitter to one who extracts juice from it squeezing it in a press (196-200), so O Arjuna, he behaves evenly with friend and foe alike and regards honour and dishonour with the same feeling. Like the sky, which remains the same in all seasons, he treats equally heat and cold. Just as the Meru mountain remains unmoved, while facing the southern or the northern wind, he remains unaffected by pleasure or pain. He treats all living beings equally like the moonlight, which gives equal pleasure to a prince and a pauper. Just as the entire world craves for water, so, all the three worlds are fond of him and like to have him as their own (201205). Thus my devotee sheds love and attachment for sensuous pleasures and remains in solitude, fixing his mind on My essential nature. |
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