Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
Now I shall tell you about devotion to the Guru; listen, O Prince among the clever. This devotion to the Guru is the source of all fortunes and it makes even a care-worn person fit for union with the Supreme (365-370). Now I am going to reveal to you, this devotion to the Guru, give me your undivided attention. Just as the river Ganga joins the sea with its wealth of water, or the Vedas enter the abode of the Supreme or a chaste wife dedicates her life with its good and bad points to her husband, so he dedicates his heart along with his senses to the family of his Guru and becomes verily the temple of devotion to him. Just as a wife keeps on thinking of her absent husband, the thoughts of the place where his Guru dwells, crowd in his mind (371-375). He welcomes the wind, which blows from the direction of his Guru’s place and invites him to visit his home. He is crazy because of his devotion to the Guru and so he likes to talk to the direction in which his Guru’s house lies, and he regards that house as his hereditary estate. But like the calf, which is confined in the cowpen being tied with a tether, he has to remain alone in his own village as directed by his Guru. He is ever anxious to know when he will be free to see the Guru and finds every moment of his separation from him, as long as an epoch. If someone arrives from the Guru’s place or somebody is sent by the Guru himself, he feels like one who, while at the death’s door, gets a fresh lease of life (376-380), or like a withering seedling, which receives a shower of nectar, or like a fish in a pond which finds itself in the ocean, or like a beggar who finds a treasure or like a blind man who recovers his sight or like a pauper who secures the lordship of heaven. Likewise he becomes overpowered by joy at the mention of his Guru’s name, he feels like clasping the sky in his arms. If you see such devotion to his preceptor’s family, know definitely that knowledge becomes his steward. Then with his heart filled with great devotional love for his Guru, he practises meditation upon his image (381-385). He installs his Guru as the titular deity in his pure heart and himself becomes with his heart and soul all the articles needed for his worship. |
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