Vithoba: However steady one may be fixed in Jnana, he is sure to be engulfed in the darkness of maya (Worldly illussions) unless hei alwayes absorbed in meditation of Brahman, giving up all society.
Dhyaneshwar: It is only if there is such a thing as Maya apart from brahman, one would have to get rid of it by being always in nishta (practice). Like saying ones shadow will fight with one, you have pointed a non existent avidya and an ego and declared that we must always be in nishta. As the only result of fighting with a shadow will be exhaustion, you will have only endless trouble if you dont stay quite in mouna (silence), realising the unreality of maya, but go on eliminating, saying, "Not this, Not this."
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Vithoba: Even if one is equal to Jagdish, if one does not daily practice the meditation "I am Brahman" he will undoubtedly become and ajnani. The ego sense which identifies one with body, etc will never vanish.
Dhyaneshwar: If one holds the light in his hands and asks the darkness to remain, will it remain? Similarly if, after vanquishing the ignorance that one is the body or its organs,, one has attained the knowledge that one is the Supreme itself, will ajnana remain even if it is bidden to remain? If one holds the cat in one hand and ask the parrot to talk, will it talk? After realizing that self, Iswara and the world etc are all unreal, will maya come even if it is invited? The eunuch will stand ashamed to declare himself a man before a woman who knows his impotence. Similarly, to one who has recognized beyond all doubt, in the presence of his guru, that Brahman alone is real, while maya is unreal, that Brahman is transcendent of all thoughts while maya consists of desires and aversions, and that one is Brahman and brahman is one Self, where is the desire or aversion, bondage or freedom, birth or deat, country or forest, charity, penance, renunciation or family life? Can the power of maya avail even a bit against one who is in the world like the eye of a dead sheep (which seems as if it can see while it does not)? Can it turn him again into ajnana? Please consider this deeply.
There upon Vithoba agreed and went back home
Thank you. ๐
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