Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
Then with the growth of this knowledge, spring twigs in the form of sharp intelligence and they expand in the twinkling of the eye (181-185). When this twig in the form of intelligence spreads, it gains through the strength of inspiration, the power of discrimination. Then there issue fourth beautiful leaves, in the form of faith, full of the juice of acute intelligence, giving rise to straight sprouts of good manners and Vedic chants. Then they bear many leaves in the form of behaviour, according to Vedic precepts and many kinds of sacrificial rites. From these spring the branches, in the form of austerities which bear bunches of self-control and restraint of the senses and beautiful tender twigs, in the form of non-attachment (186-190). The shoots of special kinds of vows come forth, from the sharp sprout of fortitude and spread rapidly upward. So long as the stormy wind of the sattva quality blows, twigs in the form of lore’s, spring from the thick foliage of the Vedas. Then a straight twig in the form of duty (dharma) spreads and produces a cross-branch, which yields the fruit of sojourn in heaven etc. A red branch, in the form of non-attachment produces fresh foliage in the form of liberation. Then the side shoots, in the form of planets such as the sun and the moon, and the abodes of manes, seers, semidivine vidyadharas (learned demi-gods) begin to sprout (191-195). Higher than these another branch springs up, bearing fruits like the heaven of Indra. This branch produces high twigs, in the form of Marichi, Kashyapa etc., who are foremost in austerities and knowledge. |
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