Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-2
Sankhya and Yoga
62. When a person broods over the objects of sense, attachment to them grows in him. From attachment springs desire, from desire anger. 63. From anger arises delusion, from delusion confused memory, from confused memory loss of reason, and from loss of reason he perishes. The mere recollection of sense-objects gives rise to attachment in a disinterested person, and with attachment desire makes its appearance. From frustrated desire springs anger, and from anger delusion. Recollection is impaired by delusion, as the flame is extinguished by the wind. Just as at sunset night swallows daylight, such is the state of a person who is deprived of recollection. When his reason becomes blinded by the darkness of ignorance, it produces confused understanding. As a person blind from birth runs helter-skelter, so delusion overtakes his understanding. With the loss of recollection, his intellect becomes muddled, and all his knowledge melts into thin air. What condition the body assumes with the loss of life, his condition becomes similar to that with the loss of reason. Therefore, listen, O Arjuna, as a spark fallen on firewood suffices to consume all the three worlds, so even if the mind perchance broods over the sense-objects, doom seeks him out and overtakes him (326-330). |
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