Verse 7.27

Verse 7.27: “By reason of the delusion of the ‘dualisms’ springing from desires and aversions, O Scion of Bharata, all beings are, at (their) creation, overcome by confusion, O Tormentor of foes. (167)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

The ego fell in love with the body; out of that love is born the child, full of desire. When this girl (desires) comes of age and blooming youth, she becomes the wife of hatred. The offspring of this union was a male child in the form of delusion of the pairs of opposites (such as pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow etc.), which was nursed and brought up by its grandfather—the Ego. In due course this boy (infatuation) being fed up on the milk of hope, becomes the enemy of firmness of spirit, and being unruly, is not curbed by the restraint of senses, and gets intoxicated by the drink of discontent; he (the boy) is never sick of enjoyment in the dwelling of senses. He scatters thorns of false notions and ideas, on the clean path of pure feelings, and opens out all the crooked ways of evil actions. All creatures get confused thereby (by the doings of infatuation etc.) and get into the jungle of earthly existence, suffering hard blows of misery.