Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-2
Sankhya and Yoga
41. In this, O joy of Kurus, there is resolute insight; but the thoughts of the irresolute are many-branched and endless. Even as a small flame of a lamp gives abundant light, one should not under-rate rightmindedness, even though meagre. The wise, O Partha, aspire for it very much, but this rightmindedness is difficult to attain by everyone. Even as the philosopher’s stone is not easy to obtain like ordinary stones, or a drop of nectar becomes available only by a stroke of good fortune (236-240), so this right-mindedness which leads to God-realisation is difficult to attain. Just as the river Ganga ends only in the sea, so this insight is the only knowledge which aims at nothing but God. Everything else is perverse reasoning, which is ever changing, and non discriminating persons always take delight in it. The latter O Arjuna, attain only heaven, earth or hell, and do not get even a glimpse of the bliss of self-realisation. |
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