Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
23. (But) he who, ignoring the scriptural injunctions, lives indulging his desires, does not attain perfection, nor happiness nor the highest goal. Now, he who has no liking for the attainment of the Self and who indulges in passion and the rest, he brings his own ruin (441-445). He disregards the fatherly Vedas, which are uniformly kind to all and which show, like the headlight, the path of merit and demerit. He shows scant regard to the rules of conduct laid down by the Vedas, neglects his own interests and indulges the senses. He clings to passion, anger and greed and does not ignore their dictates. Thus, he (giving up the highway to liberation) enters the jungle in the form of wild conduct and wanders freely there. He cannot free himself from these mental disorders, even for a moment and he does not even dream of getting out of their clutches. In this way, he loses the heavenly joys and cannot enjoy even the pleasures of this world (446-450). If a brahmin enters the river to catch fish and is drowned, he incurs the obloquy of being a heretic. In this way, in the pursuit of sensuous enjoyments, he loses heaven and gets into the clutches of death. He thus gains neither the joys of heaven nor the pleasures of this world; then why talk of his securing liberation? In view of this, whoever under the urge of passion, strives for sensuous enjoyments, does not secure either worldly or heavenly pleasures or achieve salvation. |
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