Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 6.37-39 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 37-39 of the chapter called Dhyana-yoga.

Verse 6.37-39

Verse 6.37: Arjuna Spake: “Endowed with faith, but with the mind strayed from Discipline and so lacking in self-control, should one be no longer able to achieve perfection in Yoga, what fate, O Krishna befalls him?

Verse 6.38:Is it permissible to hope that he does not, like some bank of cloud cut adrift, perish outright, severed from both the sides, supportless, and having lost his bearings, O Long-armed, in the path of Brahman?

Verse 6.39:Right here, O Krishna, thou wilt do well to completely dispel my doubt. For, save thyself, another there does not reasonably appear as the dispeller of this doubt.” (430)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

But, Oh God, a perplexing doubt still haunts me, and no one else but yourself will be able to solve it. Therefore, enlighten me, Oh Govinda, on this point. Suppose, one endowed with great faith, but not knowing the ‘Yoga’—discipline, tries to reach the status of emancipation. He leaves behind, the place of habitation of the senses, and proceeds along the path of faith with the object of reaching the state of the (essence of) Supreme Self. But before reaching the destination, and not being able to retrace (the step taken), the sun of his soul’s longevity sets in its journey and he gets stranded. Just as a thin layer of un-seasonal clouds formed in the sky neither gathers strength nor pours down, in the same way such a person gets deprived of both the attainment of the Supreme Self, as also the happiness associated with the sense-contact which he abandoned on the strength of his faith. In this way, he loses both, being led away by faith. What is going to be the fate of such an one?”

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