Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
That which is known as the seed-state in Vedanta is the abode of that imperishable purusha. It produces false knowledge, which giving rise to wakeful and dream states, roams in the forest of many fancies. O Arjuna, that state from which consciousness creates the entire world and where its manifest and unmanifest states meet, is the imperishable Self (511-515). The perishable Self assumes a body and experiences the states of wakeful and dreaming states. That from which these two states originate, is the state full of ignorance known as the state of deep sleep (sushupti), which is only lacking in the knowledge of Brahman. O great warrior, if this state of deep sleep had not given rise to the wakeful state and dream, then it would have been designated as the state of Brahman. But two clouds in the form of prakriti and purusha come in the sky in the form of deep sleep, which witnesses the Field and the knower of the Field in the state of dream. This imperishable Self is the root cause of this expanding tree in the form of this mundane existence (516-520). But why is this perfect Self known as purusha? Because he goes to sleep in the city of Maya. That state of his, in which, one does not experience the whirls of emotions, which are forms of ignorance, is the state of deep sleep. That is why this imperishable purusha does not perish except through knowledge. Therefore, it is well-known in the philosophy of Vedanta, as the doctrine of the imperishable purusha. In this way, the form of the embodied Self, which is assumed by consciousness through the limiting condition of Maya is the imperishable Self (521-525). |
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