Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
The Lord said, O clever Arjuna, give Me your attention. I shall now mention to you, those traits by which you will recognise knowledge. Know that he who extends forbearance to a person without giving him cause for complaint, possesses knowledge (336-340). Just as lotus creepers grow in deep lake, or wealth increases in the house of a fortunate person, in the same way I shall tell you those signs by which one can judge whether forbearance is on the increase in a person. He faces all good or bad situations with the same suavity with which we wear ornaments of our choice. He does not feel bad even when he is harassed by the three-fold afflictions. He rejoices equally with the acquisition of a desirable thing or of an undesirable object. He bears, with composure and equanimity, honour and dishonour, and also pleasure and pain and his mind is not affected with censure or praise. He does not feel the heat of the sun or shiver in cold and has no fear when faced with any situation. Just as the Meru mountain does not feel the burden of its peak or the Boar incarnation of Lord Vishnu, did not find the earth heavy or the earth does not feel the crowding together of animate and inanimate beings, so he is not troubled by pleasure or pain. Even though many rivers in floods join the sea, the latter holds them in its bosom (346-350); in the same way he not only bears everything quietly but is not even aware of doing so. He accepts all things that befall him as parts of himself and so he does not feel that he is doing anything extraordinary, in bearing them. He who possesses such unsullied forbearance, brings glory to knowledge. Such a person, O Arjuna, becomes the very Iife of knowledge. |
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