Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
13. With hands and feet stretching everywhere, with eyes, mouths and heads facing all sides, with ears hearing everything in the world, it remains pervading all. The knowable is at all places and times and is not separate from them. So whatever actions are carried on by gross and small beings are its hands. It is for this reason that the Brahman is said to be having hands everywhere, because it gets all actions performed everywhere in all forms (871-875). Since it abides at all times and at all places, it is named ‘having feet everywhere’. The sun does not have different organs such as eyes and as it is the seer of all forms, it is cleverly called by the Vedas as ‘having eyes everywhere’. Since it rules over the heads of all beings, in its eternal form, it is said to be ‘having heads everywhere’. O Partha, the Fire constitutes its mouth, through which it enjoys all things (876-880) and for this reason the Vedas call Brahman ‘having faces everywhere’. As the akasha pervades all things, so its ears pervade all words and so we call it ‘having organs of hearing everywhere’. Because of its omnipresence we have described it in this way, otherwise how can one speak of it, which is devoid of all forms as having hands, feet and eyes (881-885)? |
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