Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 3.22 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 22 of the chapter called Karma-yoga.
Verse 3.22
Verse 3.22: “There exists not for me, O Pritha’s Son, anything at all in the three worlds that has to be done, nor anything to be obtained that has not been obtained: yet I continue to be in action. (160)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Why should I, O Partha, give you examples of other people? I myself follow in the same path. Should it be possible to say that I observe the prescribed religion in order to protect myself (from coming calamity), or for achieving some object in the world? No one, as you know, is as perfect as I am, and none possessed of such extraordinary power as I do have. (Yet) you have seen with your own eyes—the miraculous achievement—how with my unique power I recalled to life (from the region of Yama the God of Death) the soul of the son of the preceptor. In this way, I too perform dispassionately the prescribed duties.