Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 2.55 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 55 of the chapter called Samkhya-Yoga.
Verse 2.55
Verse 2.55: The Exalted one Spake “When he, O Son of Pritha, renounces all desires lodged in the heart, and is by himself, content within himself, then is he called a man of perfectly-poised Discernment. (291)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
O Arjuna! hear, the one thing that comes in the way of the happiness of the Self is the strong desires that exist in mind for the objects of senses. One who is ever contented and whose heart is full of satisfaction and who has completely destroyed the strong desires for pleasure which make him fall headlong into the mire of sense-objects, and whose mind is absorbed in the bliss of the Self-such a one is Sthitaprajna.