Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 6.22 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 22 of the chapter called Dhyana-yoga.
Verse 6.22
Verse 6.22: “Gaining which, no other gain does he deem higher than that, and steadies, wherein, he is not shaken by even a heavy calamity; (369)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
The mind is not then shaken, even mountains of misery bigger than even Meru, are to crash down on its person, nor does that mind which is reposing in the Supreme bliss of the essence of the Self, get awakened in the least, even if cleaved with a weapon or if the body falls into fire; when the mind is thus merged in the essence of the Self, it does not even care to look in the direction of the body. It forgets the pains and pleasures of the body, having secured the unique Self-bliss.