Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
But if anyone makes a request, he speaks with affection and then his speech gives pleasure to the hearer, as if the words were coming from his parents. His speech is then truthful but soft, moderate but straight like nectar, as if the mystic sound has assumed form or the sacred water of the Ganga has splashed up or a chaste lady has grown old (266-270). His speech avoids subjects, which are contentious or controversial or likely to cause pain and also words calculated to ridicule, rebuke or touch somebody to the quick. His speech has also shed such faults as stubbornness, excitement, deceit, hope, doubt and fraud. Similarly his glance is always straight and his eyebrows are never raised in anger. Realising that the Self dwells in every creature, he avoids staring at anyone lest his glance might cause it anguish. Were he by chance to open his eyes with a kind heart (271-275), then the person at whom he looks derives immense satisfaction. It is as though the ambrosial moonbeams, though invisible, satisfy the hunger of a chakora bird. Even the tortoise does not know this sort of affection in its glance, by which it nurtures its young chicks. As his glance is pleasing, so his hands are also benevolent. Just as the yogis who have attained fulfillment are devoid of desire, so his hands are devoid of activity. Just as a feeble person gives up work, or a fire is extinguished for want of fuel, or a dumb person takes the vow of silence (276-280), there is nothing left for his hands to do and so they remain unoccupied. He does not move his hand, lest they should give a jerk to the wind or scratch the sky with his nails. Then how is it possible that he should drive away the fly on his person or the midges before his eyes or frighten the animals and birds or do such other things? |
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