Verse 7.13

Verse 7.13: “By reason of these three Guna-constituted forms of existence is all this universe confounded, (and so) perceives not Me as the Immutable One that transcends them. (60)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

The moss grows out of and covers water; or clouds for no purpose screen the sky; or although dreams can be said to be unreal, yet we think them real while we are dreaming, and thus they prevent us from remembering our own selves. The eye creates a film over itself (like a cataract) and that very film destroys the vision. In that way three Guna-stuffed Maya is my own shadow, and yet Maya has, as it were, woven herself a curtain to screen the substance of My own being. Thus it has come about that the entire world of created beings does not know Me. They emanate from Me, and yet they are not My Being. Pearls are shaped out of water, yet are not dissolved in water, or a pitcher formed out of clay, if immediately afterwards is mingled with clay gets completely dissolved with clay; but if baked (in the kiln) and hardened up it becomes a different thing. In that way, the entire mass of created beings is a part of My divine being and yet through my creative Maya, they wear separate individual states of life. Thus although they are of Me they are not Myself. Even though they are My very own, they are not one with My essence, since they become blind on account of sense-objects through self-forgetfulness, attachment and delusion.