Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
11. Constant pursuit of knowledge of Self, and insight into the aim of true wisdom, all these are known as (the means of) knowledge. Everything else is ignorance. He is firmly convinced that the knowledge through which one experiences the Supreme Self, is true knowledge and that the knowledge which leads to worldly prosperity and heaven, is nothing but ignorance. He does not long for heaven, neglects his worldly affairs and becomes engrossed in the thoughts about Self. Just as a wayfarer, makes careful enquiries at the crossroads and avoids the by-path, he fixes his mind and intellect on the knowledge of the Self (616-620). Then his intellect becomes steady like the mountain Meru with the conviction, that the knowledge of the Self, is the only true knowledge and every other knowledge is delusive. Just as the pole star remains steady in the sky, he keeps his mind steady on the knowledge of the Self. There is no doubt that knowledge dwells in such a person. When his knowledge of Self becomes impressed on his mind, he becomes one with Me. When a person has just sat down, you cannot say that he is seated, the same is the case with knowledge, unless knowledge becomes firmly implanted in his own mind, one cannot call him a man of wisdom. Then he sets his sight on the fruit of that knowledge, which is the knowable (Brahman) (621-625). |
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