Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
4. The sages have sung it variously and severally in different Vedic hymns, and also in aphorisms on Brahman, that is well reasoned and conclusive. Some (ritualists) argue that this Field belongs to the individual Self and that the vital air is its tenant. In the house of the vital air labour his four brothers (other vital airs) and the farmer in the form of the mind, supervises their work. The mind has ten pairs of bullocks, in the form of ten sense-organs and toils hard day and night, in the farm of sense-objects. Then, missing the stream of scriptural injunctions, the embodied Self prepares the beds of misdeeds, by sowing the seeds of injustice (26-30). Then he secures an abundant crop of sins, as a result of which he suffers pain in many births. On the other hand, if after making certain of the availability of the stream in the form of scriptural injunctions, he sows the seeds of meritorious deeds, he enjoys happiness in many births. On this some others (i.e. Sankhyas) say that this Field does not belong to the Self and that this matter should be referred to them for a decision. In this Field, they say, the Self dwells as a wayfarer for a short time and the vital air is a Field watchman, who keeps awake day and night and protects him. |
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