Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121

This is verse 3.40-42 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 40-42 of the chapter called Karma-yoga.

Verse 3.40-42

Verse 3.40:The sense-centres, the mind, and the intellect are said to be its location. Through these it bewilders the embodied-soul by obscuring his knowledge.

Verse 3.41: Therefore do thou, O Best of the Bharatas, restrain at the outset, the sense-centres, and kill this sin which is the destroyer both of (theoretical) knowledge as well as of its (practical) realisation.

Verse 3.42: The sense-centres are said to transcend (their objects); the mind transcends the sense-centres; and the discerning-intellect in its turn transcends the mind; the one who is beyond the discerning-intellect; that is HE. (266)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

They even torment the Hatha-Yogin. Yet there is one good remedy even against this evil, and I shall tell it to you; see if it proves agreeable to you. Those sense-centres are the places of origin of these—lust and anger—and the senses give rise to actions. Therefore, first of all the senses should be conquered and controlled, and when this is done the mind will automatically stop running about, and the discerning-intellect will be set free, making the sinners—lust and anger—lose all their support.

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