Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
8. He who abandons work as irksome, from fear of physical suffering, his abandonment is based on rajas; and so he does not reap the fruit of relinquishment. Even though he knows his own qualification and the duties to be performed by him, he becomes indifferent to them on the ground that their performance is troublesome. One feels it a burden to carry one’s food for use in travel. In the same way, action seems difficult when it is begun (181-185). Just as a neem fruit tastes bitter and a myrobalan astringent, so the action seems hard at its commencement and end. The cow gives milk, but it has vicious horns, the chrysanthemum flower grows on a thorny plant and although a meal gives satisfaction, there is the bother of cooking it. In the same way, action entails physical exertion on the part of its agent and so appears difficult in its initial stage. If not, he begins to perform it as his prescribed duty, but drops it as soon as he suffers pain. |
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