Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
Who sows the seeds which sprout into hair on the human body? Who fills up the ocean with water? Who sends the showers of rain? In the same way, the Field is produced as a result of its natural disposition, and no one has a hereditary right over it. He who looks after it and none else, will reap its fruit.” On this, the advocates of Kala (Time as Destroyer) retort in anger, “If what you say is true, then why has Kala swayed over this Field? Even after knowing the formidable assault of Kala, people stick with pride to their own particular doctrines. This Kala is dreadful like a den of lions. If after knowing this, you indulge in empty talk, how will it help you (56-60)? This Kala will hold in his fatal grip, all of a sudden, even the blessed denizens of Satyaloka, at the final dissolution of the world. He enters the heavenly woods and destroys the eight regents and elephants that guard the eight quarters. In the whirl of this Kala, the deer in the form of human beings, become dispirited and wander in the pits of births and deaths. Just see how this Kala has spread out his paw and has held in it the elephant, in the form of the world and so the supremacy of this Kala over the Field, is the sole truth.” O Arjuna, these are different views about the Field (61-65). It is recorded in the Puranas, that the sages in the Naimisha forest, held discussions on this Field. The Vedas have expounded their theory about this Field, in meters such as the anushtabha and people take pride in them in support of their views. Even the Brihatsama in the Vedas, which is holy from the point of view of its knowledge, does not know this Field. Many learned men have laboured to determine the nature of this Field, what it is, how great it is, and under whose control (6670). Now I shall tell you in detail about this Field, such as it is. |
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