Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-2
Sankhya and Yoga
28. Beings are unmanifest in their beginnings; they become manifest in the middle, O Bharata; and they become unmanifest after death. So why grieve over them? All these creatures were formless before birth; they come to possess form only after they are born. When they perish they do not certainly enter a new form, but revert to their original state (161-165). But whatever form is seen in-between is like a dream. So this world is a superimposition on reality due to Maya. Even as water touched by breeze takes the form of ripples, or gold worked by a goldsmith turns into ornaments, or the sky becomes covered by a layer of clouds, so all the creatures are products of Maya. Why do you weep and wail over what is not there. Think only of immutable conscious self. By yearning for it and experiencing it the saints discard sense-objects, hermits on their part become indifferent to the worldly pleasures (166-170) and the great sages take the vow of chastity etc. and practice austerities.
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