Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 4.24 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 24 of the chapter called Brahma-yajna.

Verse 4.24:For, (his) act of offering is Brahman, the oblation is Brahman, offered by Brahman itself, into the Fire which (too) is Brahman; (hence) the goal to be attained by him through concentration upon actions (i.e. act-relations) which are themselves Brahman, is Brahman itself (119)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

For, his mind is never touched by any distinction such as a particular thing, i.e. the sacrifice, another, the sacrificer, and the third one, the thing sacrificed. He realises all the sacrifices, with their detailed forms such as the oblations (havī), and the hymns etc. as the life of the Supreme Self. Hence to one who has realised that these actions are rooted in Brahman, O Dhananjaya, performance of actions is the same as action-free life. Now these have outgrown the uninitiated age of childhood and so are now wedded to Renunciation, and then have started, as married men do, maintaining sacrificial Fire in the form of Yoga; and then they take to sacrificial ritual in the form of Yoga and give oblations of mind as also of ignorance, in the sacred fire in the form of the spiritual preceptor’s words.

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