Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 1.40 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 40 of the chapter called Arjuna’s Dolour.
Verse 1.40
Verse 1.40: “On the extinction of the family there perish the family’s immemorial rites-and-customs (Dharma): and when the rites-and-customs perish, the entire family is overcome by impiety. (243)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Fire is produced by rubbing together pieces of wood and when it gets ablaze the entire wood is gutted: in the same way, when there arises jealousy, resulting in the mutual slaughter of family members (gotrī) great sin is created and the whole family gets burned. Where such sins, leading to family destruction, take place, the family’s traditional religion disappears and there grow up in the family anti-religious tendencies.