Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
The omniscient Lord Hari has also thought out what this indifference to the world is and how it can be cultivated. When a person, who sits down for a meal, comes to know that the food cooked is mixed with poison, he leaves the plate without eating. In the same way, if a person comes to know that the mundane existence is ephemeral, he becomes indifferent to the world. The transitory nature of the worldly life is explained in this fifteenth chapter through the simile of a tree (36-40). If ordinary trees are uprooted, they wither away. But this tree in the form of worldly existence is not like that. The Lord has skillfully suggested a way of deliverance to men from the cycle of birth and death by the use of this simile of a tree. The main purport of the Gita is to demonstrate the unreality of the world and to impart the knowledge of the real nature of the Self. This will be explained in great detail, very beautifully, in the fifteenth chapter, so please pay your attention. So spoke, the King of Dwarka, the ocean of great bliss and fuller than the full moon (41-45). |
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