Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
Just as one does not know, whether the last winds in the summer blow from the front or the rear, so is the state of this unreal world-tree. Does one need to make strenuous efforts to uproot this tree, which is without beginning, end, continuity or form? Did not this tree become strong, because of man’s ignorance of his true Self? One should therefore, fell it by means of Self-knowledge. If you make use of remedies other than this knowledge, you will become more and more entangled in this tree. How long can you go up and down the branches of this tree? So cut down the branches of this tree and cut down its root, which is ignorance, by true knowledge of the Self (246-250). Otherwise it would be like gathering sticks to kill the (illusory) serpent, imagined in a rope or getting drowned in a real forest stream, while running in search of a boat, to cross the mirage. Oh warrior, while one devises means for destroying this world-tree, one deprived of Self-knowledge becomes possessed of the notion, that the world affairs are real. O winner of wealth, just as the waking state is the only way to get rid of a wound caused in a dream, so one needs the sword of knowledge to cut the root of world-tree, which is ignorance. In order to wield this sword of knowledge without effort, the intelligence needs the constant support of non-attachment (251-255). When this non-attachment becomes firm, it goes beyond righteousness, acquisition of riches and passion, in the way a dog vomits foul food consumed by it. |
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