Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 6.42-43 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 42-43 of the chapter called Dhyana-yoga.

Verse 6.42-43

Verse 6.42: “Or, haply, he is reborn in the house of the Yogins themselves who are endowed with wisdom; for, that one should have in this world a birth like this, is a lot much more difficult to attain.

Verse 6.43:In that birth does he recover contact with the consciousness that belonged to him in the preceding life; and thereafter, once again, does he, O Joy of the Kurus, put forth endeavour to achieve Yogic perfection. (449)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

(Or) the ‘Yoga-bhrashta’, takes birth in a family of the ‘Yogins’ where the sacred fire in the form of knowledge is worshipped; where the Supreme Brahman forms the subject of all discourses; where the ‘Yogins’ are the hereditary enjoyers of Self-bliss; where they (the Yogins) having mastered the secrets of the great (established) truths have become, as it were, the very kings of three worlds; where they are felt as if they were the very birds, nightingales, singing the ‘Pan-chama’ tune, the words of contentment; and where they are sitting at the foot of ever fruit-bearing trees in the form of right thinking. A small body gets created of him and with it dawns the knowledge of Self: just as the light spreads out before the Sun (actually) rises, in that way, the state of being the ‘all-knowing’ weds him in his childhood before he gets fully developed (physically) and without waiting for his mature age. With the attainment of mature intellect, his mind automatically gets learned, with the result that Scriptures of all sorts emanate from his mouth. Such a birth—a birth, for securing which, even the Gods dwelling in the Heavens ardently perform worship and sacrifices, and sing praises of the glory of this mortal world like bards—such birth, Oh Partha, the ‘Yoga-bhrashta’ secures.

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