Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 6.32 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 32 of the chapter called Dhyana-yoga.

Verse 6.32:Who contemplates everything, O Arjuna, with an even eye, and in the likeness of his own self—be it happiness, be it unhappiness—he is deemed the Supreme Yogin.” (404)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Suffice this: he who ever views the entire universe, as also the moveables and immoveables as himself, whose mind never makes any distinction such as pain and pleasure, or actions auspicious and inauspicious, who takes as his own senses and organs, all odd and even things, and other strange things—nay—to whose intellect all the three worlds appear to be his own form—such a person, even though possessing a body, and considered in the worldly affairs as subject to pleasure and pain, according to the respective occasions, still truly (such a person) is really the very form of the (essence of) Supreme Brahman. Therefore, Oh Son of Pandu, you should develop in yourself such evenness of temper, that you do view the entire universe within yourself, and be yourself the entire universe. We have repeatedly been preaching this to you with the sole object (to show) that there is nothing beyond evenness of temper to attain in this universe. It is the only Supreme thing to be attained.

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