Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 1.42 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 42 of the chapter called Arjuna’s Dolour.
Verse 1.42
Verse 1.42: “The intermingling leads straight to Hell the family as well as the destroyers of the family; for, their Manes, with the (pious) offerings of rice-balls and water-libations failing, sink down (into Hell). (252)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Then the whole family as also the destroyers of the family, both have assuredly to go to Hell. See, if the whole lineage (vaṃśavistāra) gets sunk down in this way, then their Manes that have already gone to Heaven, do also sink down. Where, the day-to-day and occasional (religious) duties cease to be performed in various ways, then who would offer to the Manes the Tilodaka (water and sesame mixed together) and what would the forefathers do without it, and how could they continue in Heaven? And so they too return to the family. Even as a serpent bites at the toe-nail only, but the poison spreads out to and makes the entire body including the hair on the head to suffer the pangs, in the same way these sins make the entire family sink into Hell.