Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
One cannot say that it is, or that it is not. Though not susceptible to reason, it is said to be without beginning. It is the chest full of diverse powers. It is the support of the world, as the sky is the support of the clouds and it is the folded cloth in the form of universe. It is the seed of the world tree, the source of mundane existence, and it contains within it in a massive form, the dim light of false knowledge. This Maya takes shelter in the Supreme Brahman and becomes manifest through its power. She is like a sleepy person who feels dull or like the dim light of a lamp covered with soot (81-85) or like a young woman who, dreaming that she is asleep beside her husband, wakes him up with an embrace (in a dream) and rouses his passion. So, O winner of wealth, this Maya that is the creature of Brahman, makes it forget its pristine nature, and this is the origin of the world-tree. This forgetfulness of its essential nature, on the part of Brahman is the original top-root of this tree and is well known in Vedanta by the term, seed-form (Bija-bhava). The sound slumber in the form of deep ignorance, is called the seedling form (Bij-ankura-bhava) and from this arise the states of waking and sleep, which are known as the fruit-form (Phalabhava) of deep slumber. These are the terms used in the discourses on Vedanta. But this apart, ignorance is the root-cause of this world-tree (86-90). |
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