Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 2.38 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 38 of the chapter called Samkhya-Yoga.
Verse 2.38
Verse 2.38: “Make pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, a matter of indifference, and thereafter engage in combat: that way thou shalt incur no sin. (226)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Do not exult to find happy things nor be downcast at calamities. Never count in your mind consequences as gain or loss. Never think beforehand whether there will be victory or death. Bear patiently the consequences whatever they might be after acting according to what you consider proper as your own duty. In this way, be of firm mind and then naturally there will be no touch of sin in your action. Therefore be now prepared for fighting entertaining no doubt whatever.