Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 2.6 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 6 of the chapter called Samkhya-Yoga.
Verse 2.6
Verse 2.6: “Nor do we know which should outweigh with us; whether that WE should conquer (them), or that THEY should conquer us. Those very persons whom, having, slain, we should not wish to continue alive: they, the Dhritarashtrians, are standing here pitted against us. (52)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
“I plainly talked to you what was in my mind. You alone can know whatever is truest and best for us.” There have arrived here for war those dear to us, at whose reported hostility towards us, we ought to abandon, at once, our very lives. It is a crucial and difficult question—which of the two courses, viz, whether we should kill such or we ourselves should leave the war and go away, which we should follow.