Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-13
The field and the knower of the field
he has to experience the qualities. Just as when a person indifferent to the world, comes under the influence of a woman, he becomes entangled in worldly affairs, so the birthless and eternal purusha, when he identifies himself with the prakriti becomes associated with her qualities and suffers the pangs of births and deaths (10111015). O Arjuna, if you ask Me how this happens, it is like this. When red-hot iron is struck with a hammer, it is said that the strokes of hammer are suffered by fire. When people see the many reflections of the moon in moving water, they ascribe this plurality to the moon. When one looks into a mirror, he sees two faces (his own and his reflection in the mirror). When a crystal is placed on red powder (kumkuma), it looks reddish. In the same way it appears that the birthless purusha takes birth, but it is certainly not true. Just as a monk dreams that he is born in the low caste, so the purusha thinks that he has taken birth in a good or bad womb (but it is really not so) (l016-1020). So the purusha does not experience the vicissitudes of life, but feels like that, due to his association with the qualities. |
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