Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
8. Dispassion towards objects of senses, as also absence of self-conceit, and insight into misery and evil of birth, old age, ill-health and death, O Partha, dispassion for the sensuous pleasures is ever awake in his mind. Just as no one hankers after vomited food or goes forward to embrace a dead body or likes to drink poison or enters a burning house or goes to live in the den of a tiger (511-515) or leaps into the red-hot melted iron, or sleeps making the python his pillow, so, O Partha, he does not like even the mention of sense-objects and does not allow them to come into contact with his sense-organs. He is indifferent to sensuous enjoyments and his body is lean and emaciated. Then he cherishes self-control (shama) and sense-restraint (dama) and is always performing austerities and observing vows. If he has to remain in company of men, he regards it as a calamity encountered at the time of the dissolution of the world. He takes great pleasure in solitude and practice of Yoga and he finds the crowd unbearable. He regards worldly enjoyments like lying on a bed of arrows or rolling in the mire of pus. He considers even the celestial joys like rotted dog’s meat. This kind of indifference to the sensuous enjoyment is a characteristic of attainment of knowledge, and it makes a person fit for the bliss of Brahman. Know that knowledge dwells in a person, who loathes worldly and heavenly joys like this. Like a person full of desire, he performs sacrifices and constructs gardens, tanks etc., but does not entertain the pride, that he has done them (521-525). |
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