Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
Therefore, to say nothing constitutes your praise, to do nothing is your worship and to associate with you is to negate one’s personality by getting merged in you (21-25). Like the chatter of an infatuated person, is this my praise of you; so bear it, O Master, patiently with a mother’s love. Now put your firm seal on my discourse on the Gita, so that it will be acceptable to this audience. Then Shri Nivrittinath said, “Why do you need to say all this again and again? Is it necessary to rub the philosopher’s stone with iron over and over again, to turn it into gold?” On this Jnanadeva said, “I have received your grace, O Master, now listen to the interpretation of the Gita, which I am going to narrate.” Now the Gita is a temple studded with jewels, of which, this chapter is the very pinnacle, constructed with the philosopher’s stones, in the form of insights. It will instruct you in the interpretation of the Gita (26-30). There is a custom in this world, that if you get a vision of the pinnacle from a distance, it is as good as seeing the deity in the temple. The same parallel holds here also. For if you read carefully this chapter, you comprehend the whole teaching of the Gita. It is for this reason, that I say that Vedavyasa has composed this chapter, as a pinnacle to the temple of the Gita. Just as after the erection of the pinnacle, no construction work remains to be done, this eighteenth chapter suggests that with it, the Gita has come to an end. Vyasa was a skillful artisan, who excavated the mountains of gems, in the form of the Vedas and formed rocky plains, in the form of the Upanishads (31-35). |
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