Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-14
The Three Qualities
After giving birth to this single child consisting of the animate and inanimate universe, this beautiful and captivating Maya felt very proud of herself (106-110). God Brahma, God Vishnu and God Shiva are respectively the morning, the noon and the evening to this child. After laying out this play of the universe, the child (feeling fatigued) goes to sleep on the bed of the world-dissolution and wakes up at the dawn of the epoch, through false knowledge. In this way, the child grows and takes strides in the form of the recurring succession of epochs, in the house of ignorance. This child, with volition as its friend and egoism as its playmate, meets its death only through real knowledge. Now I shall stop this elaborate discussion and tell you simply that this Maya gave birth to this universe, only with the aid of My power (111-115). 4. Whatever forms are born in all wombs, O son of Kunti, of them the prakriti is the womb and I the father, who plants the seed. For this reason, O Arjuna, I am the father and the Maya the mother of this universe, which is our offspring. Now do not consider these bodies as distinct, because the mind, intellect, the senses and the elements are all the same. Are there not different organs in one and the same body? So this variegated world has sprung from a single entity. Just as a tree, produced from a single seed, has different kinds of branches, some long, some short and some crooked, such is the relationship between the universe and Myself. Just as an earthern pot is the child of clay and cloth the grand-child of cotton (116-120), or the innumerable waves are the offsprings of the sea, the universe stands in the same relationship with Me |
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