Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
He installs the phallus of Lord Shiva in the form of his Guru, in the temple of bliss within the courtyard of knowledge and sprinkles nectar in the form of meditation on him. When the sun of Self-knowledge dawns upon him, he fills his basket in the form of intellect with flowers of righteous feelings and offers hundred thousand flowers to Lord Shiva in the form of his Guru. Taking morning, noon and evening as the holy hours of the day, he burns the incense of the body and waves the lamp of knowledge before him. He makes a food offering to the Guru, in the form of union with Brahman and imagining him to be the phallus emblem of Lord Shiva, becomes its worshipper (386-390). On occasions his intellect conceives the Guru as the spouse and enjoys his company and love on the bed, in the form of the Self. At times, his mind becomes so flooded with this love for his Guru, that he calls that love the Sea of Milk. Then he imagines that the happiness resulting from his meditation is the ‘Shesha’ bedstead and the Guru is the Narayana reclining thereon. He imagines himself to be the goddess Lakshmi, rubbing his feet and also as Garuda who stands nearby (with folded hands). He imagines himself, to be taking birth from the navel of Lord Vishnu, in the form of his Guru and experiences blissful meditation mentally with devotion to the image of his Guru (391-395). On some occasion, he imagines his Guru to be his mother and rolls on his lap as a suckling infant. O Arjuna, he thinks his Guru as a cow resting under the tree of knowledge and himself as the calf sitting behind her. At times he fancies himself to be the fish swimming in the water of Guru’s grace. On other occasions, he imagines the Guru’s grace to be a shower of nectar and himself as a plant in the form of servitude. He entertains such different fancies in respect of his Guru. See how limitless is his love! He fancies himself to be the chick, with no eyes and wings (396-400), fed by the beak of the mother-bird in the form of the Guru. |
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