Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
So there is nothing left which is worth speaking about. But there remained the strong bond between the preceptor and the disciple. Besides, all the things narrated in the previous chapter, were fully appreciated by the wise, but the desires of seekers remained unfulfilled. In the previous chapter, the Lord of the three worlds, has talked about the discerning person, all-knowing and the greatest among his devotees, who has attained him through knowledge and has also described the importance of knowledge, in the last verse of the chapter. He said, “When my devotee gulps down the worldly existence through this knowledge and attains to my vision, he secures a place of honour in the kingdom of bliss (46-50).” He added, that there is no other effective means to the attainment of Brahman and that this knowledge is the king among all means. So the seekers waved their very lives before this knowledge, with great regard and pleasure. Now it is a sign of love that the more you like a subject, the more you think about it. So those seekers who had not attained knowledge were anxious to know how to secure it and after securing it, how to retain it. They, therefore, felt it necessary to know how to secure this Divine knowledge and how to increase it (51-55), why that knowledge cannot be secured and even if secured, whether there is something hostile to knowledge, which leads one astray. Then the seekers longed to give up those things, which are hostile to knowledge and adopt all means, which were beneficial for the attainment of knowledge. |
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