Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
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Why not spend all we have, to get a little quantity of nectar that makes life immortal? Why should one buy poison, drink it and die and also incur the sin of committing suicide? In the same way, if a person accumulates sin by slogging his senses and wasting his life, what does he gain except misery? It is therefore, necessary that one should perform one’s duty, which removes fatigue and helps one to attain liberation, which is the highest end of human life. O Arjuna, just as one should not forget the tested formula (siddha mantra) in a difficult situation, so one should not give up one’s duty at any time (946-950). As one who wishes to cross the sea should not forget to take the barge or one who is suffering from leprosy should not forget to take the medicine, so his intellect should not forget to follow his duty. When God is propitiated by worship in the form of performance of one’s duty, he destroys the rajas and tamas qualities of the worshipper, leads him along the road of sattva quality and makes him feel heaven and earth like poison. Then the seeker attains the plane of non-attachment described under the term perfection before (18.95). Now I shall state how the seeker behaves, after attaining this plane of Yoga and what position he secures, thereby (951-955). |
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