Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika)
by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat | 1954 | 284,137 words | ISBN-10: 8185208123 | ISBN-13: 9788185208121
This is verse 8.12 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 12 of the chapter called Akshara-brahman-yoga.
Verse 8.12
Verse 8.12: “Controlling all gateways and restraining the mind within the heart, concentrating his life-function within the crown of his head, and rapt in Yogic meditation. (112)
Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:
This shall be the power of mind, only when the doors of senses are all tightly shut by restraint. Then the mind so shut up by restraint is brought to quiet rest in the heart, just as one crippled of hands and feet cannot leave his place. Once the mind gets steady, Oh Son of Pandu, the Pranava (the Sacred Om) should be steadily meditated upon with the power of the life-breath, and then the vital breath should be pushed up, step by step, as far as the Brahmarandhra (supposed aperture at the crown of the head). When it reaches there, it should be sustained there in a balancing state, as if it is just about to get merged in the essence of the pure sky, till the three sacred syllables (a-u-ma) get extinguished in the half syllable.