Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
58. Thinking of Me you will surmount all obstacles through My grace. But if you, through egoism, will not listen, you will perish. When your mind becomes united with Me, through whole-hearted devotion, then you will have attained My grace, in full. Then all the miseries of birth and death, which every human being has to undergo, although hard to overcome, will conduce to your happiness (1266-1270). Who will care for darkness, if his vision receives the support of sunlight? In the same way, how will he, who has lost his body-consciousness, through My grace, be afraid of the goblin in the form of worldly affairs? Therefore, O Arjuna, you will be able to escape from the evil trap of worldly existence. But if, out of egoism, you will not listen to My words or pay attention to My teaching, then even if you are eternally free and imperishable, that will be of no avail to you, and you will have to bear the bullets dealt by the body (1271-1275). You will suffer from self-destruction at every step, in the bodily actions and will have hardly even a moment’s respite from agony. If you do not pay any heed to what I say, you will have to face dreadful torments of a living death. |
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