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If
I am concealed by the existence of the world,
Then
who is that blossoms in the form of the world?
Can
a red jewel be considered by its own luster?
Does
a chip of gold lose its goldness if turned into an ornament?
When
a seed of grain is sown and grows into an ear of corn,
is
it destroyed or does it appear in its enhanced glory?
So
there is not need to draw away the curtain of the
world
in order to see me,
since
I am the whole panorama.
Therefore,
giving up the conception of difference,
a
person should know Me alongside himself.
He
should not regard himself as different from Me,
as
a speck of gold is not different from the whole block of gold.
He
should understand how a ray of light,
though
proceeding from an origin,
is
continuous with it.
Like
molecules on the surface of earth,
or
flakes of snow on the Himalaya,
all
individual souls dwell in Me.
A
ripple, small or great, is not different from water.
So
he should know himself as not different form Me.
Such
insight is called Devotion.
~
Jnaneshwar ~
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