Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-14
The Three Qualities
6. Of these sattva being pure is luminous and wholesome; it binds him by attachment to happiness and by attachment to knowledge, O sinless one. In this way, the hunter sattva gathers the embodied Self, like a deer in his snares of pleasure and knowledge. Then the latter waxes eloquent with his knowledge, kicks about in the pride of his learning and so becomes parted from the bliss of Self, which is his own. He becomes thoroughly pleased, if he is honoured as a learned person, is elated with a trifling gain and boasts that he is easily satisfied (146-150). He says, ‘there is no one as happy as myself, I am so lucky’. And the eight sattvic sentiments surge up in his mind. The matter does not stop here, because another bond gets at him. He becomes possessed by the goblin, in the form of self-conceit of his erudition. He does not feel sorry in the least for the loss of knowledge, that he is knowledge himself. On the contrary, he becomes puffed up by being immersed in sensuous pleasures. Just as a king dreams that he has become a beggar and thinks himself to be the lord of heaven, if he gets some more alms. So the Self, which is beyond body, imagines himself because of his mundane knowledge that he possesses a body (151-155). He becomes an expert in active worldly life, proficient in sacrificial lore and his knowledge reaches the sky. He boasts, that no one is as learned as himself, so much so, that his mind has become like the sky, harboring the moon of sagacity. This, quality of the sattva ties fetters, in the form of happiness and knowledge and drags the helpless person like a bull. Now I shall tell you how the embodied self is bound by the quality of rajas. |
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