Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-14
The Three Qualities
That it does not know its essential nature and promotes ignorance, is the special feature of the knower of the Field (76-80). You should grasp firmly this union between the Self and the Maya, because this union is the natural trait of the Self. It is because of his union with prakriti that the Self forgets his pristine nature and assumes a different form. This is in the same way as the pauper, becomes deluded and raves, ‘behold the king is coming’ referring to himself, or a person who has just recovered from a swoon says, ‘I had been to the heaven’. Thus when a person’s vision strays away from the essential nature of the Self, whatever he perceives is the world, which is created from Myself. A person, although single, becomes deluded by a dream and sees himself in diverse forms. This is what happens to the embodied Self, when he forgets his essential nature (81-85). I shall elucidate this proposition to you in another way, by which you would experience it. This avidya (ignorance) is My consort, and she is ever young, beginningless and of indescribable qualities. She has no definite form, her sphere of activity is immense and she remains close to the ignorant and away from the wise. She is wide-awake, while I am asleep and she conceives by virtue of her union with the Supreme Self. And in the womb of this elemental nature, grows the foetus of eightfold modification (86-90). |
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