Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 6.5 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 5 of the chapter called Dhyana-yoga.
Verse 6.5
Verse 6.5: “By his own self should he raise his self; he should not cause his self to sink low. For, the self alone is the self’s help-mate, and the self alone is the self’s enemy. (67)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
Lord Krishna smiled at this and said, “Your query surprises me. Who could give, and to whom, and what, where there abides the one being without a second? Lying on the bed of illusion, the soul falls into the sleep of ignorance and suffers from evil dreams of birth and death. And when suddenly he wakes up he realises the emptiness of the subject-matter of the dream. This realisation too like the original delusion is truth in his own being. Thus, O Dhananjaya, he becomes the cause of his own ruin through the error of self-conceit of his bodily existence.