Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
The Field is the hereditary estate of the beginningless prakriti, whose fame is sung by the Sankhya thinkers (31-35). Since the prakriti has all the necessary implements, she herself cultivates the Field. The three qualities in this created world, which originally cultivated this Field, were only born of her. The seed is sown by the rajas quality and it is protected by the sattva quality, while the tamas quality reaps the crop. Then she prepares the threshing ground of mahat (the Great Principle) and gets the crop threshed by a bull, in the form of Time, as a result of which, all the subtle impressions of gross creations get heaped up in the Unmanifest. But this did not find approval with the intellectuals (the proponents of Divine Will). They said, yours is a modern idea. How can your prakriti hold its ground before the Supreme? We shall explain to you, the entire position of the Field, you may well hear it. The Divine Will was lying in a latent state, in the bed-chamber in the form of formless Brahman. |
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