Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 4.9 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 9 of the chapter called Brahma-yajna.
Verse 4.9
Verse 4.9: “Whoso in this way understands the true nature of my Divine birth and (Divine) function, he, relinquishing his (present) body, does not come to birth again: he comes to Me, O Arjuna! (58)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
And he alone is truly liberated who is settled in the vision of the eternal truth that I am born incarnate though remaining essentially unborn, and that I am essentially actionless though I appear active. For such a one, even though living in this mortal world, is not really moved by bodily attachment and even though he wears a bodily form, is not enslaved by his body functions, and when in due course his body gets dissolved in the five elements, he merges in the essence of my eternal self.