Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
16. There are two purusha in the world, the perishable and the imperishable. The perishable comprises all creatures, the changeless is the imperishable (Self). Then the Lord said, O ambidextrous Arjuna, the population of this town in the form of mundane existence consists of only two purushas. Both these live in the capital of the world, as both light and darkness dwell in the sky. There is also a third purusha, but he does not tolerate these two and when he arrives he immediately devours both of them along with the world. Leave this for the time being. First, hear about those two who have come to dwell in this town in the form of worldly existence. One of them is blind, crazy and lame, and the other has all his organs fully developed. They come into close association with one another, as they dwell in the same city (471-475). One of them is known as ‘perishable’ and other is ‘imperishable’. The worldly existence is entirely filled by these two. Now, I shall explain to you what this ‘perishable’ entity is and what the characteristics are of the ‘imperishable’. O winner of wealth, that which is great and small, right from the Great Principle to the blade of grass, which is animate and the inanimate, which is comprehended by the mind and the body, which springs from the five gross elements and takes on name and form, which issues from the mint of the three gunas (476-480), which is the metal from which the coins in the form of beings are minted, which is the money with which the Time (Kala) gambles, which is known through false knowledge, which comes into being and becomes dissolved every moment, which enters the forest of delusion and produces the form of creation, in short, that is known as the ‘World’. This has been described as the eightfold prakriti (in the Seventh Chapter) and as the Field (in the Thirteenth Chapter), made up of thirty-six principles. |
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