Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-2
Sankhya and Yoga
20. He is never born nor does he die; nor having been, he will ever cease to be. Unborn, eternal, everlasting and ancient, he is not killed when the body is killed. 21. He who knows him (i.e. the Self) to be indestructible, unborn, eternal and immutable, how can such a person, O Partha, kill anyone or have anyone killed (through somebody). What we see in a dream, we think that true in sleep; but when we wake up, nothing that we saw in sleep lasts. Likewise all this is an illusion, and you are unnecessarily confused. Just as if you strike the shadow of a person, you do not hit his body (136-140), or if you break an earthen jar filled with water, the sun’s reflection in it disappears, but the sun is not destroyed with it; or even if the monastery is pulled down, the space inside it, which is of the same form, remains intact in its original form; likewise even if the body is destroyed the Self does not perish. Therefore, O friend, do not be deluded by mere appearance. |
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