Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)

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

This is verse 7.29 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 29 of the chapter called Jnana-vijnana-yoga.

Verse 7.29:To gain release from old-age and death, those that betake themselves unto Me and make the effort; they know the Brahman, and the entire process-of-subjectivation, and the whole (creative—) movement. (175)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

What else indeed, O Arjuna, would be the natural end to the story of births and deaths? Persons whose yearning after escape leads them to the pathvay of liberation have at last their efforts crowned with success some time, and then the ripe and complete fruit in the form of the Supreme Brahman, dripping wet with the juice of perfection, drops into their hands. In that great movement the universe is filled with the joy of realization, the vision of the Self reaches its wondrous perfection, and the urge of action loses its point and the mind becomes perfectly tranquil and happy. Oh Dhananjaya, those that have made Me the sole capital of that business, secure in this way the interest on that capital of realization of the Self. Along with the spread of evenness in their temper, also widens the field of their Divine farm-produce, in the form of union with the Supreme Brahman, and there no longer exists anywhere that beggarly state of distinction.

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