Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
When the body is formed from the gross elements, as a result of the union of semen and blood (ovum), then the vital air transforms itself into ten kinds. Then these ten kinds of vital air dwell in their respective parts of the body, according to their nature. The pure fickleness, which exists in these ten vital airs, becomes separate from them and gets support from the strength of the rajas quality. This fickleness plays a powerful part in between the intellect and egoism. It is given the fictitious name of mind, but it is a mere notion, which is responsible for the embodiment of the Self (106-110), and is the cause of activity. It is that which promotes passion, incites the ego, increases desire, strengthens hope and reinforces fear. It is that which gives rise to the notion of duality, promotes ignorance and pushes the sense organs towards their sense-objects. It is that which creates the world of fancy and immediately razes it, as if forming castles in the air and then pulling them down. It is that which is the house of delusion and the inner essence of the vital air, which has locked up the intellect (111-115). It is this, which is called the mind. Now hear about objects of senses with their names. Sound, touch, form, taste and smell are the five objects of the senses. Just as an animal, after seeing green grass, becomes bewildered and runs helter-skelter, so knowledge runs outside through these five outlets. Then the utterance of sound and letters, the action of seizing and casting away, movement and discharge of faeces and urine are the five objects of the senses and through these proceeds the activity of the body (116-120). These are the five sense-objects in the body and I shall now describe the nature of desire. Desire is that state of the mind, which results from the recollection of a past experience or a sound heard before or it is that state of mind, which arises speedily out of passionate craving when the sense organs and their objects meet. As a result of this, mind runs helter-skelter and tastes the forbidden fruit. That mental state which relishes the sensual pleasures and deludes the intellect, is known as desire (121-125). |
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