Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
He leaves nothing undone in regard to the dayto-day life, but he never harbours the conceit that he has performed a particular action or successfully completed it. Just as the wind blows freely everywhere or the sun gives light without self-conceit or the Vedas preach naturally or the Ganga flows without any motive, so he behaves without any pride. His mental attitude towards work is like that of a tree, which is unmindful of bearing fruits (526-530). All self-sense has dropped down from his mind, behaviour and speech, as the pearls drop down when the connecting thread is removed from the necklace. Just as the sky remains unattached to the clouds, so he feels no attachment even while performing actions. Like the drunkard who is unmindful of his clothes, or like the picture which has no use for the weapons in it, or like the bull who knows nothing of the books it carries, he does not remember his very existence in the body. This mental attitude of his is known as freedom from egotism. It is indisputable that knowledge dwells in him who has this attribute in full (531-535). Just as the exorcist takes care to ward off possession by an evil spirit, or the yogi avoids obstacles in the path of Yoga or the mason uses the plummet to ensure that the wall is straight, he remains vigilant even when birth, death, misery, diseases, old age and sins are distant. Just as a serpent retains the memory of its enmity from a previous birth, in the same way he remembers the misery experienced by him in his previous birth and takes steps to avoid future birth. Just as a particle of dust which has gone into the eye or the point of an arrow with which a person is wounded, does not get dissolved there, so he does not forget the misery suffered by him in his previous birth. He says to himself, ‘Alas! I was conceived as the semen entered the pit of polluted blood and came out through the urethra. Then after birth, I licked with relish the sweat on the mother’s breast’ (536-540). |
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