Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 6.4 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 4 of the chapter called Dhyana-yoga.

Verse 6.4:For, it is when there is no clinging on his part to the things of sense or to actions, and when (in fact) he renounces all aims and interests, that he is called the one that has achieved (the height of) Yoga. (62)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

The objects of senses cease to frequent the sense-centres of such persons, while he himself enjoys the deep rest in the bliss of the Self in the chamber of the self-intuition. His mind even when struck by pleasure and pain never gets stirred into awareness, and he does not get provoked into recognition of the sense-objects which confront him in an encounter. His mind feels no clinging for the action-fruit, even though the senses take to actions. He alone is an adept settled in Yoga, who, remaining unmindful of the mass of the bodyactivity, remains as if he is in sleep. Here Arjuna said, “O Lord, how wonderful is all this that you say! Then what is that which gives him (such a person) such worth”?

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