Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
14. Having become the abdominal fire, I live in the bodies of all creatures; and united with the inward and outward breaths, I digest the four kinds of food. Therefore, O Arjuna, I become the digestive fire, which is kindled at the region of the navel. By blowing the bellows in the form of inward and outward breath, I consume unlimited quantities of food. I digest four kinds of food viz., dry, oily, cooked and half-cooked. In this way, I am the entire world of beings, also the food which sustains them and I am also the fire, which is the principal means of digestion (406-410). How much more can I describe to you the novelty of My pervasion? There is nothing in this world without Me and I have pervaded the whole of it. Now you will ask Me, why some beings in this world, are happy and some are afflicted with misery. If the lamps in a town are lit by one and the same lamp, will it happen that some of them give light and some not? If you entertain such doubts, I shall clear them completely. See I am everywhere and there is nothing without Me. But I appear different to living beings according to their discerning power (411-415). Even if sound is the quality of the sky, we hear different tunes from different musical instruments. The sun rises and helps the people to go about their different occupations. The seeds with different properties grow into different trees. In the same way, my essential nature is transformed into differing beings. If an ignorant and a wise person both see a double-braided necklace of sapphires, the ignorant one takes it to be a serpent, while the wise one feels happy with the knowledge that it is a necklace. The raindrop turns into a pearl when it falls into an oyster under the asterism of Swati, but it becomes poison, when it falls into the mouth of a serpent. In the same way, I become the cause of happiness to the wise, but the cause of misery to the ignorant (416-420). |
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