Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 1.36 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 36 of the chapter called Arjuna’s Dolour.
Verse 1.36
Verse 1.36: “Having slain Dhritarastra’s sons, what joy can be ours, O World-destroyer (Krishna)? Arch-felons though they he, for slaying them, sin alone can accrue unto us.” (228)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
If I kill the gotrajas it would constitute a hot bed of sins and what is won out of your love to me—will have kept away (from me), the bliss that I enjoy in your love. Should (I) commit family slaughter and thereby commit sins? And then where, how and by what path could we find you again? Just as the bird nightingale would not remain for a single moment on the spot, seeing intense fire spreading out in the garden, or just as the bird Chakor seeing a lake, coveting it with a longing, would leave it without enjoying it and fly away in the same way, as soon as my good works are depleted, 1 think you will have me at the mercy of a delusion and desert me, utterly and for ever!