Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121

This is verse 18.68 of the Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha-Dipika), the English translation of 13th-century Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita.—The Dnyaneshwari (Jnaneshwari) brings to light the deeper meaning of the Gita which represents the essence of the Vedic Religion. This is verse 68 of the chapter called Moksha-sannyasa-yoga.

Verse 18.68:He who proclaims this, the Supreme Secret, amongst My devotees: he, having conceived the highest devotion towards Me, shall reach Me straight: of this there is no doubt. (1507)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Therefore, you do install the (image of) God in the form of Gita-gem in the temple in the form of the devotee who after first making firm the foundation of austerities and then erecting on it, Oh Dhanurdhara, a temple in the form of devotion towards the Preceptor, and keeping its door open in the form of keen desire to hear, and lastly fixes over it a beautiful top (śikhara) of gems in the form of non-slander. And when you do this, you will also rise up, in this universe, to my own eminence.

The Pranava (the Hindu Triad) was shut up in its mystic mono-lettered form ‘Om’ (ॐ) in the womb formed by the three syllabic instants ‘a’-‘u’-‘m’. That seat of the Vedas-that Hindu Triad-God germinated and sprouted into branches in the form of the Gita; or the very ‘Gayatri’ (gāyatrī—the sacred verse of the Vedas) has come into being with flowers and fruit in the form of Gita stanzas. Therefore, one who through genuine regard, will bring home to my devotees the Gita teachings full of supreme secret, in the way one, who brings together a longing mother who cannot live without her pet child, and the child itself which has no other source of living than its mother, will come and be one with my essence, after the fall of his mortal body.

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