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# Aranya Kand · Doha 15

**चौ०** 
> थोरेहि महँ सब कहउँ बुझाई। सुनहु तात मति मन चित लाई॥  
> मैं अरु मोर तोर तैं माया। जेहिं बस कीन्हे जीव निकाया॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> गो गोचर जहँ लगि मन जाई। सो सब माया जानेहु भाई॥  
> तेहि कर भेद सुनहु तुम्ह सोऊ। बिद्या अपर अबिद्या दोऊ॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> एक दुष्ट अतिसय दुखरूपा। जा बस जीव परा भवकूपा॥  
> एक रचइ जग गुन बस जाकें। प्रभु प्रेरित नहिं निज बल ताकें॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> ग्यान मान जहँ एकउ नाहीं। देख ब्रह्म समान सब माहीं॥  
> कहिअ तात सो परम बिरागी। तृन सम सिद्धि तीनि गुन त्यागी॥४॥

Meaning: “I will explain everything in a nutshell; listen, dear brother, with your mind, intellect and reason fully absorbed. The feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, ‘you’ and ‘yours’ all is Māyā (illusion), which holds sway over all created beings. (1)

“Whatever is perceived by the senses and that which lies within the reach of the mind, know it all to be Māyā. And hear of its divisions too: these are two, viz., knowledge and ignorance. (2)

“The one (ignorance) is vile and extremely painful, and has cast the Jīva into the sink of worldly existence. The other (knowledge), which brings forth the creation and which holds sway over the three Guṇas (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas) is directed by the Lord and has no strength of its own. (3)

“Spiritual wisdom is that which is free from all blemish in the shape of pride* etc., and which sees the Supreme Spirit equally in all. He alone, dear brother, should be called a man of supreme dispassion, who spurns all occult powers (Siddhis) as well as the three Guṇas (of which the universe is composed) as if of no more account than a blade of grass. (4)

* Śrīmad Bhagavadgītā enumerates the following characteristics which make for spiritual wisdom. These are: absence of pride, freedom from hypocrisy, non-violence, forgiveness, guilelessness, devout service of one’s preceptor, purity of body and mind, steadfastness, subjugation of the mind, aversion to the objects of sense, absence of egotism, pondering again and again on the painful character of and the evils inherent in birth, death, old age and disease; absence of attachment and the feeling of mineness in respect of one’s son, wife, home, etc., and constant equipoise of mind both in favourable and unfavourable circumstances; unflinching devotion to the Lord through exclusive attachment, living in secluded and holy places and finding no enjoyment in the company of men; fixity in self-knowledge and seeing God as the object of true knowledge (vide Gītā XlII.7–11). The definition given here narrates the opposites of these virtues, viz., pride, hypocrisy, violence and so on. The definition may be interpreted in a different way as well. It may be taken to mean that spiritual wisdom cannot be attained through the ordinary means of cognition (Mānasa or Pramāṇas) such as perception, inference, verbal testimony and so on; it is self-evident (स्वतः प्रमाण).

**दो०** 
> माया ईस न आपु कहुँ जान कहिअ सो जीव।  
> बंध मोच्छ प्रद सर्बपर माया प्रेरक सीव॥१५॥

Meaning: “That alone is to be called a Jīva (individual soul), which knows not Māyā, nor God, nor one’s own Self. And supreme (God) is He who awards bondage and liberation according to one’s deserts (Karma), transcends all and is the controller of Māyā. (15)

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