Verse 7.19

Verse 7.19: “(Becoming) at the end of several lives the man of knowledge, he betakes himself unto Me in the conviction, ‘Vasudeva is All’. Such an exalted soul is exceedingly hard to find. (127)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

(Such a) devotee has indeed conquered all obstacles put by passions and desires in his journey through the dense forest of sensuous life and has climbed up the uphill path of a resolute will, Oh you, the best of warriors! Then he walks in the company of the righteous, avoiding the unrighteous way of sin, and betakes himself to the royal road of the right actions. He has continued his journey along this road through cycles of birth, renouncing all fruit of actions, as if he spurns the use of footwear. How could such a one count upon the fruit of action? In this way he journeys fast, alone in the dull night of ignorance of physical existence, along the road of righteous actions. Then at last, the dawn of knowledge proclaims the end of the nightly journey, when all action is dissolved. Simultaneously comes the “Ushah-Kala” (uṣaḥkāla—three fourths of an hour before dawn)—the grace of Guru as if it were the ushering in of day-break, that brings the mild rays of knowledge: and so his vision meets with the glorious treasure of the unity of all things.

In such a pure mind, wherever he casts his glance, he beholds My divine being, and even in motionless repose, without looking at anything, he realizes nothing else than my own being in his heart. Suffice this description. He sees nowhere any other being except Myself. Just as a pot drowned in water gets full of water in and out; in that way he being concentrated in me, I abide in him in and out, but this state is not one that could be described in words. I would only say that once the treasure house of truth is opened to him, he uses the wealth of knowledge in his dealings and the entire universe is at his feet. His inner experience getting full with the realization that this entire universe is full with “Vasudeva,” he proves to be the king among the devotees, and one of great knowledge. The wealth of his experience is so vast, that it can hold in it the entire universe moveable as also immoveable. But such a great soul, O Dhanurdhara, is so rare. There are many indeed who worship Me otherwise, out of desire for the fruit and become blind by sensuous desire in the darkness of worldly hope.